For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.<br />“Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable.<br /><br />“Really what?” I asked.<br />“Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?”<br />He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me.<br /><br />“Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.