Looking back, he understood why Kage had been standoffish. Austin still had trouble wrapping his head around the fact that Kage was five hundred years old. Kage’s hesitancy back then made sense. But Austin was grown up now. Maybe not so much by a paranormal’s standard, but Austin was human. There were only so many years of life he was allotted, and he was done wasting them. He was ready to get to know Kage as a man.
