Chapter 7

• I hung up on him.
• Our pup had somehow become the chip Miles used to threaten me.
• But our pup was gone for good.
• A sharp pain stabbed through me. No way I was getting back to sleep, so I headed to Max Gym early.
• Inside, Omega staffers bustled around, greeting me warmly.
• This used to be where Miles did his rehab after his eyesight came back.
• Back then, I’d stepped in to help him on the floor.
• He always thought that was the first time we met.
• Later, to honor our love, I bought the place and turned it into a training center famous across the werewolf world.
• It also became the most profitable business under Miles’s name.
• But after he became an Alpha, Miles decided this place was tacky. He never came here again. Not once.
• “What are you thinking about?” Damian slid close behind me, bracing my arms. “Don’t zone out when you’re training.”
• Ever since the party, Damian had been sticking with me—through everything, even my rehab.
• I slipped to the side and swung a punch at him.
• My fist thudded against his solid chest. Damian didn’t move an inch. I was the one who staggered.
• He caught me. I hooked him with my legs instead, rolled, and slammed him to the floor.
• My sweat sank into Damian’s bronze skin, giving a faint shine on those muscles.
• Our scents mixed. Weirdly, I didn’t hate it.
• I shot back, “Don’t space out when you’re training.”
• Damian grinned. His big hand clamped on my waist, keeping me from getting up.
• I was forced even closer to his almost perfect body, my lower belly pressed right between his legs.
• In a low voice, Damian said, “Not getting distracted around you? That’s damn near impossible, Caroline.”
• No male wolf had ever said that to me.
• Miles never did either.
• Then I felt Damian get hard. His erection was huge—at least three times bigger than Miles’s.
• I shot to my feet. Damian looked embarrassed. “I can explain—”
• With my face burning, I bolted into the locker room.
• I knew it was ridiculous, but his heated gaze—and the fact he got hard for me—made me feel like a real woman.
• When I came out, a sickly sweet pheromone stink hit me. Selene’s.
• “Once we sell this gym, you can give me the grandest mating ceremony ever.”
• Her voice drifted over.
• Miles and Selene were strolling around the facility.
• Almost at the same time, Miles spotted me too.
• He strode over. “Caroline, I still haven’t forgiven you for what you did at the party! And you still dare show up at the gym?”
• “You’re selling Max Gym?” I demanded.
• Miles didn’t hesitate. “Yeah.”
• Max Gym was where I poured more of myself than anywhere except family. It was basically my second kid!
• And for his ceremony with Selene, he was going to sell it off that easily?
• I swallowed my rage. “I won’t let you touch this place!”