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“Yeah,” I admitted, hoping he was free right now. I needed desperately to get back to that room and see the woman beyond the door.
She smiled and nodded. “Go on in, he’s free now.”
“Thanks, Kelsey.”
I knocked softly before opening the door to his office and letting myself in.
“Hey, what’s up? What brings you to the Westin Foundation,” Kyle asked.
I closed the door behind me, looking between it and him and back at it.
“It’s okay Patrick, there’s a soundproof barrier around the room that even my mate’s super wolf ears can’t penetrate unless I lower the barrier and want her to.”
I let out the breath I didn’t realize I was holding.
“So, did you try what we discussed last night?”
“Yeah.”
“And?”
“And that’s what led me here. Kyle, she works here. She’s just down the hall. I was about to barge into her office when Lily found me.”
“You’re sure?”
I stared at him like he’d lost his mind. “You’re mated, you should understand. Of course I am sure,
yeah.”
“Yeah, I get it. Okay, well lead the way and let’s go find your mystery gal.”
He was almost as giddy as Christine Canine had been, trying to unmask my mate the day before.
“This way,” I said, suddenly very nervous.
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Kyle stopped only long enough to tell Kelsey that he was taking an early lunch and would talk to her later. He kissed her and then her stomach. My heart lurched with longing at the sight. I needed my
mate.
When I stopped at Human Resources, Kyle gave me a strange look.
“This way,” I told him, walking back into the small reception area.
He entered, and then closed the door to the main hallway behind him. I was already heading for the door I knew belonged to her, but Kyle stopped me.
“Um, Patrick, how sure are you really about this?”
“Really? I’m two thousand percent sure, Kyle. This is her. It has to be. Her scent is everywhere, concentrated strongest at this door.” I pointed to her office door.
He ran a hand through his hair. “Shit!”
“What?”
“Dude, that’s my sister’s office.”
“What? That’s not possible.” I said, my heart sinking. “I’m around Lily all the time. I’d know if it was her. This is not her smell. I swear it isn’t. Maybe she has a visitor?”
He looked at me like I’d lost my mind. “Not Lily, Elise.”
That name again. It made my heart flutter irrationally
“Elise? Who’s Elise?”
“Seriously? Pat, you’ve been here for months now. You are around my siblings all the time. How could you not have met Elise? I mean I know she’s been a little…” His voice trailed off. “Shit!” He swore again. “How did I not see this?”
“What are you talking about? Who is Elise?”
His hair was mussed from pulling his hand through it. “Elise is my sister, Patrick. My other sister.”
“What?! I didn’t even know you had another sister. Yesterday was the first time I’d ever even heard the name before. Christine mentioned her as a possible wolf match, but Liam laughed it off and said
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it wasn’t possible.”
“Well yeah, I mean, she’s our sister! She hasn’t been around much lately cause she’s been dealing
with some shit.”
“Yeah, looks it. She’s been dealing with hiding from me.”
He blew out a long breath. “Okay, okay, we can deal with this.”
“Look Kyle, I’m sorry she’s your sister, but you have to understand, I have to find her. I need to know
for sure.”
He nodded before pushing me out of the way and knocking on the door. When there was no answer, he turned the knob and walked in. Her scent was so strong it nearly knocked me on my arse. It was her. I’d found her, only she was gone once again, but this time at least I knew. I had a name.
Elise.
Elise
I had two safe places in my life: my office and my bedroom. They were the only two places in all of San Marco that I knew I wouldn’t run into Patrick, yet this morning I had smelled him there. I came back from a late lunch and his scent was all over my office. I wanted to storm down to Kyle’s office and demand to know why he and Patrick were in there, but that would give it away. I shouldn’t be able to recognize Patrick’s scent, not as far as my brother was concerned. For a moment I wondered what he would do if he found out I was mated to his friend. His friend that I knew was on an all-out mission to find me.
Christine had called me the day before asking if I knew Patrick. I had told her of course I knew him, he was Kyle’s good friend. She had confessed she had thought maybe from the description he had given her that I was the mysterious mate he was looking for. I knew I was, but I hadn’t admitted that to her or anyone else for that matter, and had just laughed it off with her. She told me she had taken him around to every eligible she–wolf in the territory that she could think of, even ones that didn’t meet the description he gave, but that he still hadn’t identified her. She was on the mission then too. Everyone was determined to find me, not realizing I didn’t want to be found.
