Chapter 82


    Him.


    (Anna)


    That first shift Mac stayed for three hours, just drinking coffee and watching the road outside. He didn’t


    speak to me or even look at me, although I was d I didn’t have to fight off a fully grown male shifter. I


    have to say I was a little confused, I thought rogues were all about the females and wanting them for


    themselves. Instead I have the hotter than sin Mac who has sat at the same table every shift for thest


    six shifts. He drinks his coffee, he watches the cars and he leaves.


    Now it’s my day off and I can’t help but wonder where he is. If I’m being honest with myself I’m a little


    nervous about there being a rogue so close to me. I knew it would happen of course but I didn’t think I


    woulde across one so soon and in such a domesticated manner. Putting the magazine I’m reading


    down on the sofa next to me I reach over to the coffee table and pick up my phone. It takes me a good


    five minutes but I finally work up the courage to hit the call on Fraction’s number. After a handful of


    rings it gets answered but I don’t hear Fractions voice on the other end, instead it’s just silence.


    “Fraction?” I ask after a solid minute of silence.


    “He’s not here,” Faye’s sickly sweet voice answers back. “He’s showering, what do you wan


    “Oh erm, I wanted to talk to Thomas.” I quickly lie, the phone gets this m uff led echo sound to it and I


    hear Faye speaking to someone before shees back to the line.


    “He’s not here right now, I have to go. Fraction needs me.” The line. ends as quickly as it started.


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    Pulling the phone away from my car I hold it in my hand and just stare at it. I drop the phone to the floor


    like it’s just burnt my hand. Why is Faye helping Fraction in the shower? Did he go back on his word?


    Did he mate her? All the questions go running through my head so quickly they make me feel like the


    room is spinning. I get up from the sofa in a daze and head to the front door. I need some fresh air, I


    suddenly feel. like I can breathe here. Once I’m on the porch I sit on the top step and just take some


    really deep and soothing breaths, I’m trying to calm. myself down and it’s not working in the slightest.


    “They’re not mated.’ Winter tells me.


    ‘How do you know that?’ I ask her while scanning the tree line of where my house backs onto.


    ‘I would feel it, I’ve felt everything else.’ She sounds really bitter as she says this.


    ‘Everything?’ I ask her quickly, ‘did I miss something?”


    ‘You don’t want to know Anna.’ She tells me quickly.


    ‘Just tell me, it can’t be worse than her answering his phone while he’s in the shower and then her


    leaving to join him.’ I say bitterly.


    ‘A few nights ago I felt them together, it was only for a short time but they definitely shared something


    intimate.’ I close my eyes and pray for patience as she tells me this, ‘it didn’t feel right though, nothing


    like when we are with them.”


    ‘How can you still feel it? I didn’t feel anything.’ I ask her as I try to gather my emotions.


    ‘I’m still connected to Leo, that’s why the mark hasn’t faded. If we are away too long it will snap just like


    your connection’ Winter exins, ‘Anna get yourself inside and lock the door.”


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    ‘Why?’ I ask her instantly going on edge.


    “There is a wolf on the tree line, go now Anna.’ As soon as she has finished speaking I am on my feet


    but it’s toote, a giant grey and ck wolf starts to emerge from the treeline.


    ‘We need to shift.’ I demand of Winter.


    ‘I can’t,’ my eyes go wide at this as the wolf gets closer. I watch in horror as the wolf speeds up but as


    he gets closer he shifts into a fully


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    grown man.


    “What the hell? A wolfes running at you and you just stand there? Do you have no survival


    instinct?” Mac roars as he grabs my arm and drags me back inside my house. I don’t resist him. I’m in


    too much shock that he’s butt n*ked and dragging me through my own home. As soon as we are in the


    lounge he stops moving and pushes me onto the


    sofa.


    “What are you doing here?” I ask him quictly.


    “Right now? Looking for some pants.” He says storming out of the lounge and up the stairs. I just sit


    there and stare after him, I’m trying to think of what I can do but I’m drawing a nk.


    ‘We need help.’ I tell Winter, ‘who can we get here?”


    ‘Where’s your phone? Maybe those human police cane?’ I almostugh out loud at the notion of


    calling the police on a rogue shifter.


    ‘I dropped it and I don’t know where it is. Anyway, can you imagine what a rogue will do to human


    police?’ I swear I can feel her roll her eyes at me.


    ‘Well at least I won’t have to go through the pain of a broken


    connection with Léo.’ She tells me as Mac walks back into the lounge


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    wrapped in a floral towel. He sits down on the armchair and just looks. at me. I suddenly feel very


    ufortable.


    “When was thest time you let your wolf out?” He asks me.


    “I’m sorry what?” I ask, thinking there is no way I heard him properly.


    “Your wolf”? When was thest time you ran on all four paws?” I shrug my shoulders, “well you need to


    try and do it at least two times a week. You need to keep Winter strong and active.”


    “I don’t understand.” I say confused, he’s just there after dragging me into my home and now he’s


    giving me self care tips on how to keep my wolf healthy. “What kind of rogue are you?” out of the list of


    things he would do, for him to m his feet into the floor and burst outughing is not one of them.


    “A rogue? You think a rogue is going to have a nice chit chat before he kills you?” I just blink at him,


    “Anna I was sent to help you.”


    “By who?” I ask him, shocked that someone has been sent to help me


    in any way.


    “Alpha Darryl, he has a bit of a soft spot for you. Not that I’m surprised, he didn’t mention the Omega


    thing. Although that will make my job easier,” he says while rubbing his stubbled jaw line. “Yeah, I can


    work with this.”


    “Work with what? What’s your job exactly?” I question him.


    “Well, me and you are going to work on your training, pick up where Patrick left off. You got a spare


    bedroom?” He goes from one topic to another so quickly it’s making my head spin.


    “A spare bedroom?” I ask him, I seem to bounce from confused to annoyed and then right back to


    confused. My head feels like it’s


    Him


    spinning around in a circle.


    “I’m sleeping in the forest so Swiftmane doesn’t find out I’m here.” If he’s hiding does that mean I can’t


    tell anyone he’s here. “Don’t worry, everyone who needs to know I’m here already knows.” I nod my


    head. at him. “we will start with training tomorrow at 5am. I’m going to find the spare bedroom.”


    “Wait!” I say getting up and following him to the stairs, “you can’t just move in here.”


    “Sure. I’ll go and when the roguese to find the sweet little Omega on her own I’m sure they will be


    terrified at the whole not running thing you have going on.” I just stare after him as he heads up the


    stairs. and starts opening doors.


    Heading back to the lounge I sit down on the sofa and try to figure out what the hell just happened.


    How did the guy who has been sitting in my work ce turn out to be someone sent by Darryl to train


    me and. look after me? And what exactly am I being trained for? The challenge. is over and I lost, there


    is nothing left to fight for. Fraction promised. me he would fix this so I’m not sure what my training at


    5am is going to do.


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