down. And my god, he was packing.
“I was born in 1827. My family, we were settlers who arrived in this area from Boston. I was attacked by wolves when I was nineteen and my father took me to the old Lakota medicine man who lived on the outskirts of town. The only way he could save me was to turn me into what had attacked me… But I was an outcast once my family saw what I had become. And so, I’ve lived in the forests and the fields here ever since.”
“Bandit… How am I supposed to believe that?” I asked, my head feeling dizzy from the revelation.
“Maureen, how can you not believe that? You just saw me transform.”
“So, you’ve been… A person… This entire time? You slept in my bed. You watched me change. You’ve watched me grow up.”
He nodded. “That’s right. But the truth is, Maureen… I’ve loved you ever since I saw you in this very field, in this very spot, on that night all those years ago.”
My heart just about stopped. I looked around. Yes, he was right—it was this very spot!
“Bandit… No… It can’t be…”
“But Maureen, it is. It was this spot. And you’ve been all I could think about ever since.”
I couldn’t believe it. I just couldn’t. How could this be my dog, my wolfdog Bandit? Tears started to drip out of my eyes. Bandit wrapped his strong arms around me.
“Maureen, Maureen, Maureen… I know… I’m sorry. I didn’t know how I could tell you. I wanted to be near you. To protect you. That’s why I said nothing.”
“But… You could have let me know… Once I was old enough to understand.”
Bandit shook his head.
“It’s not that simple. I… Maureen, I don’t age. I look the same as I did when I almost died and when my father took me to the Lakota medicine man. Do you know how difficult it is to build a relationship when you live forever, when you never age? I couldn’t take it, Maureen. I couldn’t deal with seeing you grow old and die without me.”
“Bandit, what do you want me to say? What do you want me to do?”
He shrugged and gave me a smile, a simmering, shimmering smile that sent shivers through my body.
“Let me come with you to college,” he whispered. “I can’t stand it any more. I need to be with you. I’ll come with you to college. I’ll live around the campus, outside, running free, and I’ll come and share your bed whenever you’ll have me.”
Share my bed. What did that mean? Bandit had always shared my bed… Most mornings, he’d come in around five or so, curl up next to me with his head on my chest, snoring softly, and when I finally awoke, I’d have to ease my way out from under his snout so I didn’t wake him.
Or did he mean… Like that ? Like what I was going to do with Tom, at least until our evening got derailed…
“This is too much, Bandit… I can’t… I can’t…”
And with that, I dashed off, tears dripping out of my eyes as I charged through the corn rows. As I came to the bar, I took pause. I dried my eyes and did what I could to pretty myself up. I didn’t know what was going on. I was a mess.
Copyright 2015 Billie Kasper
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Sinner (MC Club Biker Urban Alpha Male Erotic Romance)
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