“I don’t . . . I don’t feel that with you. I'm not saying that to be hurtful, it's just . . . the truth. Until the night of the winter solstice, I’d never seen you before. If you were my mate, I would have felt it then. I’d feel it now.” “Unless someone interfered,” Sam mumbled, looking everywhere but at me. I shot her a questioning look. “What’s that supposed to mean? Whose side are you even on?” “Yours, Nikki. I'm always on your side. That's why I came here and told you as soon as I found out. You have a right to know, and not whenever these three douchebags got around to telling you.”
