章 74: seventy two

 "No, I chose to put your safety above everything else. It didn't change the fact that the only person I wanted was you."

 If that was true, he was going to be seriously pissed off by her answer, and then she'd be stuck in a car with a raging, too-damn-dominant alpha male wolf. That was never a good situation, and her wolf wasn't looking forward to it. When he raised a questioning brow at her, she averted her gaze as she admitted, "I dated a couple of times." She braced herself for an explosion. There wasn't one. Risking a glance at him, she saw him looking calm and cool. Only his white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel betrayed his inner turmoil. "Why aren't you yelling?"

 "How can I?" His words were like crushed rock. "All you were doing was trying to get on with your life."