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"No," she said i "You don’t freak me out in any way"

"Then what’s the probleet involved with people who’re spoken for"

"Good Neither do I"

But he was spoken for, because"You’re a shifter"

"I’m well aware of that," he said, i with this He thought it best not to comment on how cute she looked when she lifted her chin like that

"You have a true htI feel like I touched soed to so, Zander sighed He hadn’t expected the true- that had ever bothered anyone before now Given that Gwen Miller was a female with principles, it would have occurred to hiht But she was human and didn’t seem to properly understand the way it worked

He rested his hand in the crook of her neck and caressed the coluht that I have a truefor me, Gwen? She could be imprinted on another She could be someone who doesn’t want a mate She could be someone I never meet for any number of reasons"

Gwen frowned "I is when two people who aren’t true ht It happens more often than you’d think I know several imprinted couples One of o; their bond is as strong as any I’ve seen between true er over her cheekbone "My uncle died recently"

She winced "Sorry to hear that"

Zander shrugged "I didn’t know him well He searched for his mate all his life He never found her, and he died alone He told me in a letter he’d written shortly before his death that I shouldn’t spendthe sa for my mate would be pointless"

She tilted her head "Why?"

"Several things can block the frequency of thedoubts and fears and mental walls Did you know that?"

She shook her head "Let h"

A sed at his mouth "You could say that my boundaries are , in part, because he liked to be in control of hi his true mate would take some of that control away

"Those walls I have will block the bond," Zander continued "That nize my predestined mate if I cross her path We could pass each other in the street and never know Hell, we could know each other for years and never realize we’reto her any s to me If it worked any other way, shifters would never be able to for bond with soed on her braid "In other words, I’le as you are"

She looked away "I don’t understand You’re"

"What?"

Gorgeous, edible, out of aze back to hihtest bit of interest in me until yesterday, and now you’re all up in my space"