“I don’t know. I could help, so I did.”

She has a soft heart. This is merely further evidence.

“Why not just tell me?”

She shrugs. “I didn’t want to be dragged into anything. Besides, it’s not as if you would have believed me. A vampire saving a wolf shifter. Even the idea sounds ridiculous.”

Her reasoning takes me aback, and she gives me a hard look. “I live among humans, like a human, Mr. Montgomery—”

“Robert, please,” I say quickly. “Call me Robert.”

“Fine, ...