“No. Not… not yet… We need… I need…” Her words came quickly, as if she were trying to remember how to speak. “There are steps we need to take for this to work.” She took a deep breath, and Gunner started to feel the energy within him subsiding, leaving way for sanity to take the driver's seat once more.
“What the hell did you do to me?” he asked as his bearings kicked in.
“Me?” She flashed a look of surprise at him.
“You did something to me.”
“Says the man who kissedme.”
“You cast some kind of spell on me, didn’t you? That’s what this is really about! Thought you’d drag me back here and—”
“Oh, for Heaven’s sake, I did nothing.”
“That certainly didn’t feel like nothing, sweet cheeks.”
“Besides, I wouldn’t need to cast a spell if all I wanted to do was...” Her voice faded into the night, the words left unsaid aloud.
Cate entered the house once more, leaving Gunner on her doorstep, and this time he did not follow her. Instead, he looked to the full moon above, his wolf pining once more for the magic, the feel ofher.
Fucking hell.