her to get back.
“I want to make sure he’s really gone,” she said. “Last time you told him to leave, he didn’t leave. He told me.”
The wolf dipped his head, turned, and trotted toward the highway to watch Bart go. Cait hung back.
After several minutes, he turned back to her and nodded.
“You’re hurt,” she said.
He came to her side and pressed his nose into her hand. Then he jerked his head to the right and began to walk off in that direction.
Cait understood that he meant for her to follow.
“Wait a minute,” Georgette said, running over. “Cait—what’s going on? Are you okay? Maybe you should come back up to the dorm with us.”
Sarah took Georgette’s arm and pulled her away gently. “She’s okay,” she said. “She knows what she’s doing. Right, Cait?”
Cait had no idea what she was doing anymore. The only thing she knew for sure was that she wanted to be with Grant.
“I’m all right,” she told her friends and followed him away.
Chapter Seventeen
GRANT
Grant waited until they had reached his cabin before shifting back. He opened the front door and ushered Cait inside. “Go wait for me in the kitchen,” he said.
“You’re bleeding,” she protested.
“Go,” he insisted. “I’ll join you in a minute.”
Reluctantly, she obeyed.
Grant went to his bedroom, grabbed a pair of flannel pants, and pulled them on. He found the first aid kit he kept in his adjoining bathroom and grabbed that too. Cait was going to have to clean him up. He hoped she had a strong stomach.
She was waiting in the kitchen as he’d asked, sitting at the table. When she saw him, she jumped to her feet and helped him to a chair. She took the first aid kit from his hands without being asked and undid the latch. “Let me look at this,” she said.
Her fingers carefully probed the bite wound on his shoulder. “It’s not too deep,” she said. “I think if we wrap it up and disinfect it, you should be all right.”
She pulled out a bottle of disinfectant, soaked a rag, and carefully wiped away the blood and dirt. Grant gritted his teeth against the pain. When she was finished, she found a roll of bandages and wrapped them around his shoulder. “That ought to do it,” she said. “But those will need to be changed in a few hours.”
He couldn’t help smiling up at her.
“What the hell are you smiling about?” she demanded. “Has it escaped your notice that everything’s a disaster right now?”
“I’m proud of you,” he explained. “You’re coming into your own as an omega, Cait. Caring for others is a primary omega trait, and you’re doing it naturally. I didn’t even have to ask you for help.”
“Don’t get all emotional about it,” she said. “I don’t think I would have done it if it hadn’t been you.”
“Because I’m your alpha,” he explained. “I’m your pack. It’s reasonable that I would bring things out in you that others can’t. You should be at your most omega self with me. That’s why you submit to me and you fight against people like him.”
She laughed dryly. “I wouldn’t say I’m the one who fights him,” she pointed out. “What the hell was that out there? You’re out of your mind if you think nobody’s going to have questions about that.”
“He was attacking you,” Grant said. “I couldn’t allow that. You know I couldn’t. I swore to you that I would never allow anyone to hurt you again.”
Cait sighed. “Grant...he knew about us. And he told my father. He says my father’s on his way to pick me up right now. They’re going to take me home. And I can only imagine they’ll be complaining to the school about you. I thought you should hear it from me. If you want to leave here, you’d better go now.”
“Cait, I’m not letting them take you,” Grant said.
“What are you talking about?” she asked. “You said it wasn’t going to work out between us.”
“I didn’t say that at all!” he burst out. “I said things would need to change for us to make it work, that’s all. And you lost your damn mind at me!”
Cait looked ready to argue, but then she hesitated.
“Is that really what you said?” she asked.
“Yes,” Grant insisted. “I never dreamed of ending things with you. You've got to know that. It would kill me to do that. I’ve imprinted on you, Cait, and that’s not something you can just quit.”
Cait sank into a chair and buried