“I love you, too, Masen.”

CHAPTER 19

Waking up, I feel the solid wall that is Masen behind me. He’s on his back, my head pillowed on his shoulder. His arm curls up and around me, his fingers barely touch my short triangle of pubic hair. I slowly move on to my back and stretch. My pointed toes reach just below his knees. Distantly, I hear a phone ringing. Is that what woke me? I know it’s not mine, anyone who has my number knows I’m here. A few moments later, it rings again. Thinking it must be important for them to have called right back, I slide out of bed trying desperately not to wake Masen.

I grab the white t-shirt he wore last night and rush from the room while struggling to get the shirt over my head. I follow the ringing to the kitchen. Masen must have set his phone down last night before we went to bed. The screen goes dark just as I reach to answer it. Only to start ringing again, immediately. The name displayed is Roxanne. What the hell! I pick up the phone and swipe the green icon. “Hello,” I say incredulously.

“Mase, oh Mase,” she howls. She doesn’t even realize I’ve picked up the phone.

“No, this isn’t Masen. He’s indisposed,” I say, smug to use her words against her.

“You!” She sneers. “Put him on the phone. I know what you’re trying to do. I know Mase practically attacked Cass last night because you’re still fucking him.”

First, who the hell told her about Masen getting mad, and second, why the hell does she think I’m having sex with Sniffer? “Um no! Are you crazy? Who told you that junk? Why are you even calling anyway?”

“Masen needs me. You’re trying to ruin him, turning him against his family, his pack,” she screeches.

“Not even close! But you know what? I’m not doing this with you. You want to talk to Masen? I’ll have him call you as soon as he wakes up. He can tell you for the third time it’s over between you two, has been for years. Don’t call back unless there is some sort of real emergency.”

“Over between us?” She cackles. “He’s never said it’s over between us. It never will be. He loves me. He just told me so, yesterday. He’s just trying to find a way to get rid of you. You think you can satisfy him, little girl? He’s a man, an Alpha. You will never be enough for him! He’ll be begging me to fuck him like a woman. He already has,” she spits.

She’s talking crazy. She has to be, right? Pain still lashes my heart from her words. “He seemed quite happy eating my pussy last night, repeatedly. Just couldn’t get enough of this little girl.” I flaunt.

“Now, I know that’s a lie. Mase doesn’t...”

Before she can spew more venom, I hang up. I stare at the now black screen of the phone still in my hand. She was lying, she’s just trying to hurt me. My belly hollows. I can check his phone. I shouldn’t need to, or even want to, but her words burn like acid in my veins, making me doubt him.