Wolf's Run: A BBW Shifter Romance Read Online Free

said. I went over his admission in my head, turned it over and tried to reconcile it with what I knew about the world. It didn’t make any sense. I couldn’t believe him though for some reason I wanted to.
    “So, assuming you’re not crazy, what’s that got to do with me?” I wondered. I wasn’t ready for his answer.
    “My kind, we aren’t human. Not anymore. We’ve evolved but we mate with humans. We mate for life,” he said and then he looked off towards the lake. “I remember it like it was yesterday. I had a hangover and I needed some breakfast. I reached the diner and I smelled it. Her scent. The scent of my mate. I was sure it was your mother but she was older than I expected. Her scent was faint, odd, not like I’d imagined. I was confused but she was beautiful, almost perfect,” he said and then Yeager looked back towards me.
    I sat quietly stunned. What he said was strange to me. Unbelievable, in fact. Yet, it made so much sense to me. It sounded so right. But it wasn’t my mother he scented. I knew that much. “It was me,” I guessed.
    “Yes. She walked behind that counter I sat at this morning and I saw you there making coffee. You were a child but I knew you were her, the one made for me, the one I was made for, my mate. You know it too. Your scent was overwhelming to me when I saw you this morning. I missed it deeply over the last seven years. I missed you, even though I’d only seen you that one time and only for a moment. I left you, knowing it wasn’t yet time, elated to have found you but shredded inside at having to leave you behind and wait,” he said.
    Despite the vibe I got from Yeager, the sense of ease I felt with him, his story was too much. I stood up and backed away. It wasn’t that I found it to be ridiculous, just the opposite. It was the fact I believed him that frightened me. “What are you going to do to me?” I asked, suddenly fearful as my mind tried to grasp what Yeager had said, tried to work through what it meant.
    “I’d never hurt you, Cassie. I know this is a lot to handle but its best this way. You must know what I am and how we’re connected. You must come to terms with it or we’ll both be doomed to a life of longing and pain,” he told me. Now the alarms in my head were blaring.
    “Why must I? What if I don’t want any part of your delusions? Are you going to rape me, kill me...eat me?” I asked as I took another wary step backwards. Then my heel caught on a small stone and I fell. I screamed as I fell but Yeager, like a flash of lightening, caught me in his arms. I struggled as the walls closed in, the things he said, the peril I had put myself in, hit me. I opened my mouth to scream but he gently closed my mouth as I whimpered instead.
    “Shh. There’s no need to fear me, Cassie. I’m not the enemy. I could never, hurt you,” he said. I wanted to believe that but I was no longer able to reason. I was scared and I told myself it was Yeager that frightened me but I knew deep inside that wasn’t true.
    “Then take me home!” I told him. The pain in his eyes tore at my soul. Those words hurt him deeply but right then, I didn’t care. I needed to get away from him. I needed to be safe. I thought it was from him I needed to escape but it was from what he said. I needed relief from the truth. I refused to believe what he’d told me even though every fiber of my being told me I should.
    ~~O~~
    “What’s up? You seem...distracted,” Edie asked me as I stared at the coffee machine, my thoughts somewhere else entirely.
    “Huh? Oh, nothing. Just tired,” I told her.
    “Might that have anything to do with going out with that biker last night,” she asked me. I turned to Edie, shocked that she knew but she was ready for my reaction. “I see everything,” she told me playfully but I wasn’t in the mood.
    “We didn’t go out,” I said. We did but not like she was thinking. It wasn’t a date. It was...I don’t know what it was but it was