Thunder (Alpha Love - a Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Romance Book 3) (23 page)

“You want it really badly, don’t you? To be turned?” Lola’s voice is almost wondrous as she asks the questions, already seeing the answer written across Sofie’s face.

“More than anything.” Sofie doesn’t bother to hide the longing in her voice. “Well, almost anything,” she smiles slyly at Lola, thoughts of Ashton flooding into her head.

“Well, you only have one person to convince.” Lola shrugs like it’s no big deal.

“Gus. He would rather bite off his own arm then do something that a) I want and b) that Ashton doesn’t. Besides, I don’t have the luxury of having time on our side.” The words are out of Sofie’s mouth before she has a chance to edit them. She had no plans to make her intentions known to the pack, at least not until she had passed the point of no return.

“You got that right, sister.” Lola nods sagely, assuming that Sofie is referring to the inevitability of Luke taking further action against them, rather than suspecting Sofie has any plans of her own up her sleeve. “Any clue what Ash has got up his sleeve?”

“I wish I knew, Lo. I wish I knew.” Sofie’s voice is wistful as she throws her new friend a brave smile on her way out of the door. “Guess we’ll find out at the meeting.”

But as she closes the door softly behind her she wishes that she didn’t feel like the events of the day before had pulled her further away from Ashton precisely at the moment when they were finally getting closer. They’d told each other how they felt, in unequivocal terms and yet here they were. Ashton had closed himself off, dealing with this shit-show on his own, without her, as if he didn’t need her. She shakes the thought off as she gets ready for the meeting.

The only trace of Ash in the house is the sheen of steam coating the bathroom mirror. She swipes at it, showing just enough of her reflection to see her dark almond-shaped eyes. She confirms that she looks like she got about an hour’s worth of sleep and is carrying more worries than she knows what to do with and then she gets on with her day.

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