Purr For The Alpha (A Paranormal Romance) (Timber Valley Pack) by Georgette St. Clair Page A

spend any time with him or let him continue treating her like this. She’d take all of her meals in her room. She’d avoid him at the club. She’d flirt like crazy with every hot shifter she saw, because it seemed to bother him, for reasons she couldn’t understand. Hell, he certainly wasn’t jealous of her.
    She saw Troy coming out the back door after her.  Turning her back on him, she passed his truck and walked towards the road.
    He jogged after her, catching up to her quickly. “Come with me and get in the damn truck!” he yelled at her.
    “ No,” she said stubbornly. “I can walk.”
    “No, you can’t. I am not letting a woman walk home in the middle of the night by herself.”
    She kept walking.
    “I’m a shifter, for God’s sake. I can outrun and outclimb anybody,” she snapped.
    “ Not if it was another shifter. Or multiple shifters. If you keep walking, our deal’s off.” She spun around to glare at him.
    “That’s not fair!” she hissed. “That’s not what we agreed on!”
    “ Then I guess we should have drawn up a contract.  Life’s not fair. Listen, you don’t have to talk to me, don’t have to look at me, but you do have to get in this truck.”
    Her jaw tightened. She was furious at him, but she was also tired, her legs ached, and she really didn’t want to have to walk five miles back to his house, or even shift and run back.
    She followed him back to his truck, pulled the passenger door open without a word, and climbed in. They rode the rest of the way back in silence.
    When they arrived, she walked in to the house without a word, and he followed her.
    “I don’t know what the hell you’re so mad about, anyway. I’m the one who should be mad at you,” he said as she stalked in to the living room.
    She spun around, astonished.
    “Excuse me? You should be mad at me?” She was so angry that claws shot from the tips of her fingers and she could feel the fur rippling under her skin. Her ears tufted. She itched to shift, but restrained herself. She needed her voicebox so she could yell at him.
    “Yes, I should be mad at you.” He stared at her with a burning intensity. He was completely serious. “In fact, I am mad at you. You walked off and left me hanging. I thought we had something together, Karen, I really did.”
    “I walked off and…” she struggled for control. Fur shot through her skin, silver and black, but she forced it back down. “You ran off and left me , and went to make out with some blonde!”
    “Why the hell would you think that?”
    “Because you said you’d be right back, and you never came back! And finally after I waited for ages Evangeline came and told me you were making out with some blonde. And I felt like a fool! I was still standing there with my hands up against the wall…waiting for you…” tears flooded her eyes. If he made fun of her right now she would kill him.
    Instead he looked at her with astonishment. “ I had to break up a fight, and then it turned out one of the shifters was badly injured and I had to stick around and deal with the fallout. The second I could get free, I rushed back there looking for you.”
    She opened her mouth and closed it again.  Evangeli ne had lied to her. What a surprise. So she’d spent the last year being furious at Ty for no reason.
    “I saw you making out with Sarabeth Kaminski the night before you were supposed to go out with me back in high school,” she said defensively.
    Understanding dawned on his face. “That’s why you never showed. Ok, I deserved it, and you did me a favor taking my ego down a peg or two.  I was an immature asshole back then, Karen. That was ten years ago. None of us are the same person that we were back in high school.”
    He slid his finger under her chin and tipped her head back up so she’d look at him.
    “So, now that we’ve cleared that up, that leaves us where we were a year ago.”
    “I-it does?” she knew what that meant. Suddenly her voice went