She loves me. She loves me. SHE LOVES ME.
Zircon was on cloud fucking nine. He still couldn’t believe it. Oh, he’d been telling himself she did for years, but that was way different from this. Jennifer Dylluan had said those magical three little words to him.
Finally, after all this time, she’d said I love you, and it felt fucking awesome.
He watched her walk on her tiny-heeled shoes into the Dire Wolf run roadhouse and wondered at her sperm donor’s gall. First, the older male did not deserve to be called a father after what he’d done. Walking out on his child, leaving his mate while he chased tail all over the gods’ green earth—no bird joke intended.
He adjusted the sound on his earpiece, having outfitted Jenn with a microscopic wire. He could hear her heart thumping inside her chest and knew the moment she spotted him by how fast that muscle had started working.
Fuck.