Danger in a Fur Coat (The Fur Coat Society Book 4) by Sloane Meyers Page B

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    “No,” Juno said quietly. “You’re right.”
    “And do you have a family?” Wyatt asked. “Maybe a mom and dad?”
    Juno nodded.
    “I’m sure they would be devastated to lose you. Romantic love isn’t the only kind of love, you know. It’s not the only relationship that matters.”
    “That’s easy for you to say,” Juno said. “You’re a dragon. You guys don’t feel the same pull that we feel as bears.”
    “What pull is that?” Wyatt asked.
    “It’s hard to explain in words,” Juno said. “But it’s like I know deep within me that there is a part of me that’s missing something. I mean sure my life overall has been happy, notwithstanding the crazy events of the last few months. But hey, even that has turned out okay. I’m essentially enjoying a wilderness retreat with a bunch of my closest friends. So it’s not all that bad. But even with the happy, fulfilled life that I’ve had, I’ve always felt like there’s something missing within me. It’s like missing someone I’ve never met. I can feel him. I know that he’s there, and there’s this pull that’s always tugging at my heart. The lifemate bond. I might forget about it or it might be less strong for short periods of time, but other times it gets stronger. It’s just something that’s always been a part of me, and for a long time I didn’t even know what it was. I just knew that sometimes I was sad for no reason. Now I know that it’s the lifemate bond calling to me. I would love to find my lifemate and have that empty part of me filled, but there doesn’t seem to be any sort of roadmap to where he is. I’m just searching and searching and hoping that someday I’ll find him.”
    Wyatt had heard the lifemate bond described before, but never in such emotional terms. It always been described him as somebody knowing when they met someone that that person was who they were supposed to be with for the rest of their life, but he had never heard someone explain it as an aching for someone whom you hadn’t met yet. The more he thought about it as he sat there, draining the whiskey from his glass, the more he realized that he’d felt a similar sadness himself. There had been many times over the years where he had been inexplicably lonely, even though he had a good life and good friends. At times he’d even had girlfriends, although that had never lasted too long. He was too much of a free spirit for most girls. Besides, when it got to the point in a relationship where he had to explain that he was a dragon, things always got a little awkward. He usually avoided the subject until his girlfriend thought that he was lying to her about something important or was cheating on her and then left him.
    “What’s wrong?” Juno asked, pulling him out of his reverie.
    “Nothing,” Wyatt said. “I was just thinking that maybe I have felt that lifemate bond before.”
    Juno shrugged, “You would know better than me.”
    Wyatt was silent again. Was this what he was feeling now? This aching for Juno? He had just met her, and yet he felt like he couldn’t get enough of her. But if they were lifemates, then shouldn’t she feel the same thing towards him? She didn’t seem to be interested in him beyond a general friendship sort of thing.
    “What’s wrong?” Juno asked. “You’re frowning.”
    Wyatt looked up at her and tried to smile, but he couldn’t manage a very convincing one at the moment.
    “You say the lifemate bond comes and goes,” he said. “Do you feel it strongly now?”
    Juno bit her lip thoughtfully. “It’s hard to say. I would say yes, because I’ve felt the pull very strongly the last few days. I feel like my lifemate is calling to me more than ever before. But then I wonder if it’s just the emotions of trying to save the world and all that. It’s a pretty big thing.”
    Wyatt felt a glimmer of hope in his chest. Maybe she did actually feel something for him, after all, and just hadn’t realized it