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food in front of her before going back to get his. Once he returned, he sat and started to eat.
    “I’m not a bad cook.” Garrett pointed at her plate with his fork. “You need to eat, Janna.”
    Raising her eyes from the plate, Janna looked at Garrett. “Why me?” she asked, but saw the question in his eyes. “I don’t understand any of this. Just because your…wolf picks me, what if you as a man are not attracted to me?”
    Putting his fork down, Garrett leaned back in his chair, his gaze intense as he studied her. “I am one with my wolf, Janna, as you will be once you accept your fate. It’s something that can’t really be explained. I’ve been attracted to many women, but once your wolf picks his mate, that’s it and it’s for a lifetime.”
    “But what about what you want?” Janna tried to dig deeper to fully understand. “You don’t even know anything about me, only my looks and what you’ve seen in…what…a day? That’s not enough time to decide to be with someone for life.”
    “Are you attracted to me, Janna?” Garrett kept his relaxed pose, but his eyes were far from relaxed. They were so intense that she felt it, which was both strange and oddly exhilarating.
    She wanted to respond with, duh. Hell, he was gorgeous, but instead, she nodded. “Yes, but…”
    “That’s a start, but until you phase you will not understand. You have not mentally become one with your wolf.” He finally looked away from her, picking up his fork to finish eating. “Now eat.”
    “But I’ve been attracted to other men…” She stopped suddenly at the growl erupting from his mouth.
    “There will be no other men, Janna.” His eyes narrowed on her. “You are mine.”
    Biting her lip to keep from saying something really stupid at his caveman response, Janna picked up a piece of bacon and bit into it, her eyes watching cautiously as he finished his breakfast with angry gusto. The bacon tasted like cardboard and seemed to grow in her mouth the more she chewed. Tossing the rest of it on her plate, she frowned.
    “Don’t I get a say in that?” She found the courage to ask. “I mean, usually in past relationships, I knew the guy for a week or so before things developed and we…”
    Garrett slammed his hands on the island as he stood. In two strides, he was in front of her, grabbing her up from her stool. One hand underneath her ass, he lifted her up to him, his mouth smashing against hers as his tongue found its way inside her mouth, kissing her breathless.
    Pulling his mouth from hers, he held her tighter. “If you don’t want me finding these assholes you are determined to tell me about and killing them then, you need to stop.”
    “But…”
    Placing a finger against her lips, he shut her up. “You are in a different world now, Janna Lawson. You are a shifter, so your human ways will take a backseat. Did you have sex with any of these pitiful males?”
    “I don’t see how that is any of your business,” Janna gasped, trying to break his hold.
    “Oh, it is my business,” he whispered into her hair. “And you will answer my question.”
    Janna felt like being stubborn because seriously, who asked that. Garrett Forster, that was who and he carried the authority of expecting an answer. “One.” Janna felt her face flame. “But only once.”
    Garrett growled at her answer and tightened his grip. “You will soon forget about him.”
    “I don’t think so.” Janna cringed when his growling became louder and more intense. “I bit him. It was mortifying.”
    For Garrett’s mood to go from one extreme to the next, surprised Janna. One minute he was growling as if he wanted to tear someone’s throat out, and the next he was laughing hysterically. “I would bet anything that it wasn’t a bite of passion.” How a hot sexy man could seem even more handsome when snorting with laughter was a mystery to her. “I cannot wait to meet your wolf,” he said between laughing.
    “It’s not funny.”