Chapter 7

Lucy snuck a peek at Derrick from across the room. He’d been watching her all night. A fact she found as disconcerting as it was sexy. His quietly persuasive, alarmingly powerful aura was unlike any other Shifter’s she’d ever met. She knew all too well that males, especially Alpha males, could be a possessive bunch of assholes—to the point of suffocating the happiness right out of a relationship.

Cat Shifters were loners by nature, even if for her, it was more a circumstance kind of thing. Still, she found herself wanting more from life now that she’d met Derrick Rand. Even his name was sexy. Bonus points to him for not letting her down on that front. Could this work?

She’d been mulling it over for two days now, and in Shifter years that was like a month at least, right? The man was an Alpha seemingly loyal and fierce, and even better, he wanted her.

He. Wanted. Her.