Bab 99: CHAPTER 99 Shake It Off

　　~ CASIMIR ~

　　As that wave of pain reached me through the bond, I slammed the wall down between us just as surely as I closed that door, and stalked up the corridor, clearing my mind of anything and everything to do with my mate.

　　This was not the time.

　　It could not be.

　　She was just going to have to live with that.

　　I'd already given her more of myself than anyone in my life. Ever. If it wasn't enough… well, she was just going to have to learn to deal-

　　Behind me, the door I'd just used clicked and creaked.

　　"Cazz!" Jesse hissed down the hall after me. "I don't have a shirt!"

　　I jerked to a halt, blinking, the two sides of my nature going to war- the King and Alpha growling that she was Queen and Alpha and could find a fucking shirt for herself, while the mate in me roared that she couldn't link and wanted to snap teeth at the mental image of her scuttling through the tunnels with her beautiful body bare.