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happy - very happy.  Do you think Ed wants to marry you?” she asked bluntly.
    Kim flushed bright red.  She hoped so, but she certainly wasn’t about to jinx it.  She opened her mouth to say something non-committal but was cut off by a harrumphing Helena.
    Tiring of trying to talk to Jennifer, Helena flounced off the couch.  “Good luck with that; Ed is not the marrying type.  When we were engaged, I couldn’t even get him to sit down and set a date.”
    Kim froze as Helena gave her a pitying yet smug smile and disappeared out of the room.  Her wolf snarled at the retreating female while Kim tried to stop herself from howling in anger.
    Christine could sense Kim’s unease.  “I take it you didn’t know,” said the older woman quietly.
    “No,” replied Kim tersely.  “If you’ll excuse me, I’m going out for a walk.” 
    With that, Kim ran out of the room like she’d been shot, and Christine quickly left to find Ed.
     
     

Chapter Five
    “Kim!  Wait, please.”
    Kim ignored him and strode to the beach.  Ed finally caught her and grasped her arm; Kim rounded on him and with blazing amber eyes, she snarled.
    “Why didn’t you tell me?”
    He faltered at the hurt look in her eyes and his wolf howled at him to fix this.  He couldn’t stand to see his mate hurt.  “Kim, gorgeous, I didn’t want you to think that she meant anything to me.”
    Kim threw up her arms.  “Ed, you were going to marry her!  Did you not think that maybe I should have known something like that?”  Yeesh, he hadn’t even bothered to tell her that Helena even existed before they reached the island, and then he had lied about how important she was to him.  Why was he keeping secrets from her?  She’d told him every rotten last detail about her romantic past, and yet he couldn’t even mention he had been engaged before?!  Even her wolf, who was usually on Ed’s side, was having her doubts.
    Kim felt tears welling.  “Do you still love her?”
    Ed looked like he’d been slapped, and his wolf whined at the thought.  “No, Kim.  I love you, and only you.”  He took hold of her rigid arms and was thankful she didn’t move away from him.  “I never loved Helena.”
    “But you were going to marry her!” blurted Kim in frustration.  Helena was with him for three months, and she managed to get a proposal out of him.  Kim had been with him for about five, and she could barely even get him to spend a whole weekend with her!
    “I never wanted to marry her.  I only went out with her because Olivia set it up, and Helena’s mom was friendly with my mom.  Plus I felt sorry for her; Helena had a rough time after her father died.  I was just being nice.  Then, when we started dating, I realized we had nothing in common.  But every time I tried to break things off she just cried and went on and on about her father, and I didn’t have the heart to go through with it.”
    Kim’s claws lengthened as her beast grew more and more impatient.  “But you proposed!”  Lord, they were going round in freaking circles!
    “I don’t even remember proposing!” he yelled in frustration.  His wolf snapped his jaws at him, and Ed immediately calmed.  There was no point in getting angry with Kim; this was his fault and he wasn’t explaining it very well.
    He rubbed his thumbs over the smooth flesh of her arms and almost died when he saw the pain in her emerald eyes.  “Gorgeous, the truth is, I barely remember proposing.  We met up one night, and I was going to break things off, and the next thing I knew, I woke up the next day with vague memories of proposing marriage.”
    Kim’s face was stony, and her wolf was unrepentant.  “So you were drunk?  Should I be worried about any other ex-fiancées climbing out of the woodwork?  Because you are no stranger to alcohol.”
    Ed’s jaw ticked.  “I had a glass or two of wine, but I wasn’t drunk.  The truth is…”  Ed closed his eyes; the only other person