Page 20 of Osiris: The Wolves
“I called and texted you last night. You stood me up.”
“I know,” Juliette said. She walked to the door and Sigh slid his arm around her shoulders. “I’m really sorry. I turned off my ringer yesterday while I was at Sigh’s restaurant and forgot to turn it back on. I saw the alerts this morning when I woke up and was going to talk to you after I got ready for work. By the way, this is Sigh. Sigh, this is Cass, my best friend.”
Cass’s gaze darted to Sigh and then back to Juliette.
“I’m a little pissed.”
Juliette looked up at Sigh and then at Cass. “I need to get ready for work. I’ll walk with you and we can talk.”
“Fine.”
Cass turned and walked back to her house and Juliette pushed the door shut with a groan.
“I’m sorry, baby,” Sigh said.
“What are you sorry about?” she asked. She stripped as she walked toward the bedroom. She’d taken a shower with Sigh thatmorning before they left but she hadn’t had clothes to change into.
She rummaged through her drawers and closet, grabbing what she needed and sitting on the bed to get dressed. Sigh leaned against the doorjamb, looking yummy. She very much didn’t want to go to work today.
“I’m sorry that I didn’t ask about your friend. I knew you guys had a standing Wednesday night thing but I just didn’t put two and two together about her thinking you disappeared on her.”
She shrugged one shoulder and hooked her bra closed. “I did text her I was leaving work early; I’m kind of surprised she didn’t assume I was going to miss our time together. But it’s my bad communication skills. She’s just looking out for me.”
The side of his mouth quirked up.
“What?” she asked, standing and buttoning her jeans.
“I don’t want your friend to dislike me.”
He followed her into the bathroom and watched as she got ready. “She doesn’t know you. Are you worried that if my friend doesn’t like you that I’ll want to leave or something? Because that’s the last thing that’s going to happen. I want her to like you, but you’re my mate.” She screwed the lid back on her mascara and set it on the counter, then settled her hands on his hips and smiled up at him. “I’m feeling very protective of you right now, which I think is kind of silly because you could flatten anyone that tried to hurt either of us. But… I don’t want you to be upset and that’s why I’m feeling protective. Cass will get over me not showing up last night, and she’ll get to know you. But her opinion of you doesn’t change how I feel.”
He cupped her shoulders with his warm hands, his eyes simmering with amber striations. “How do you feel, Juliette?”
Her stomach did that flipping thing that happened whenever things got a little hot between them. It would be so easy to lookover at the bed, to suggest she could be late to work if he was interested in getting in a little pleasure before they parted ways.
But they’d already sexed each other up in the shower.
And she should really get to work.
“That’s a dangerous question when I need to work today,” she said.
He slid one hand up to her neck, his fingers playing along her skin. He leaned down, almost touching her lips. “Answer the question, Juliette.”
Oh, she loved when he said her name. So serious, so sexy, his voice rough, like his wolf was coming out to play.
“I’m crazy about you. It hasn’t been two full days yet, but already I feel like we’re meant to be together. It’s a little scary, a little fast, but it’s also really incredible and I like it. I like you.”
“I like you too.” He kissed her, but it wasn’t sexually charged; it was just a sweet kiss. Just his lips against hers, his wolf rumbling in his chest.
She melted against him, feeling like the luckiest woman in the world.
When the kiss ended, she finished getting ready, and he waited with her outside until Cass came out for their walk to work. He kissed Juliette goodbye, promised to be at her door at six for their date, waved at Cass, and got in his car and drove off after honking twice.
She and Cass walked down the sidewalk.
The silence stretched between them, and then Cass sighed. “You spent the night with him.”
“Yes. And I know what you’re going to say.”
