Holly Wyatt's lips parted, and she shook her head, her expression conflicted.
'She couldn't possibly say that the main reason Silas Thornton sent all these gifts was because her parents had saved his life, could she?'
She shook her head repeatedly, her hands signing quickly. "Mom, how could I lie to you? His standards for a girlfriend are very high, and I don't meet them. You saw the gap between us and him today. It's impossible for us..."
'Even though Silas Thornton had thought about forming a mate pact with her in five years, she just considered it a passing whim of his.'
'He had never actually said it out loud, and besides, there were still five years to go.'
'Maybe by then, after Silas Thornton had completed his personal mission of "raising the cub," his attention would shift to the female wolves of the Wolf Clan. He might even find one he fancied.'
