"Cherry is Elsa with less of a personality and more ice. I'll bet you twenty dollars she won't care. She's egotistical enough to know she has you. After all, it's all over the papers." I gave him a winning smile that felt slightly crazy.Thiswas crazy. I wanted answers, and now I had them. This was a desperate Hail Mary. I had a feeling Sterling knew what I had suspected. He was just choosing to ignore it.
"Archer," Sterling said. He ran a hand through his hair. His eyes were gleaming, losing control of the wolf. "You really are a crazy person."
"What do you have to lose?" I asked him.
"Pretty much everything. Why are you doing this?"
I poked him in the chest again. "Portia set me up on five dates. One of those was supposed to be my soul mate. Don't pretend you don't know why I'm here."
"So Dimitri wasn't all what he was cracked up to be?" Sterling smirked, and I wanted to smack him.
"Dimitri is just fine. I'm sure our engagement pictures won't be nearly as awkward as yours are."
His eyes flashed at me. We stood there for a long moment staring at each other before he let out a long breath.
"I can't."
"You won't."
"You're right. I won't. It's madness."
I stepped in closer to him, my face tilted up. "You're scared." I traced a finger down his strong jaw and placed it on his lips. "We both know what this is. You're a coward if you don't give it a chance."
Sterling shut his eyes. His nostrils flared, and I felt his body heat increase. He was about to lose it. I stood on my tiptoes and placed a kiss on his jaw. Sterling shuddered against me.
"Goodbye, Sterling Luna." With one last caress against his face, I trailed my fingers down to his chest, turned around, and walked away. If I looked back, I was going to lose it.
I looked straight ahead all the way out the door, my head high and my spine straight. I'd been rejected a lot in my life but never in such a harsh way.
Sterling Luna was my soulmate and he knew it.
He just didn't care.
