People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn’t love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn’t want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn’t be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.