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“Needy not greedy.” Her piercing blue eyes bore into mine. “And my alpha is telling me he doesn’t want to claim me.”
“I want to,” I rumble. “I didn’t say I didn’t want to. I want you as mine more than I’ve ever wanted any damn thing in my whole life. But that doesn’t mean I should.”
“It does. If I choose you, that means I forgive you. We all deserve forgiveness if it’s earned.”
“You know I’m all in with you, don’t you?” I drop my forehead to hers, pressing a kiss on her lips. “And when you’re ready for me, I’ll be waiting. And I will wait.”
She nods as a shaky breath leaves her lips, but a dark cloud passes through her gaze. “Did you want me? I mean, when you called Walker to rescue me. Did you actually reject me?” she utters.
A slash of an invisible knife cuts across my insides.
“No.” I stare into her eyes. “I promise there was never a time I didn’t want you. But I’d prefer you alive, and not with me, than dead. Suddenly, everything became clear to me that my life was fucked up and I had to change who I was. The people I was with. And when I saw your father and Walker on the TV begging for your return, I knew when I saw Walker that he was your alpha. He looked so pained.”
Her eyes coat with tears. “I can’t believe you saw that.”
“I knew when looking at him he was distraught and I contacted him. Told him everything I knew and crossed my fingers that he would trust me enough to one day accept me as his pack mate, so I got a chance with you.”
“You’ve proved how much you...” she stammers before clearing her throat. “You proved how much you want me. You were prepared to give me up and go through the hurt yourself.”
“I was. But if I was to have a chance with you, I wanted it on your terms. I wanted you to love me.”
A single tear flows from her eye and slides down her cheek. “You do?”
I rub the pad of my thumb over the tear and suck my thumb into my mouth, tasting her. “How can you taste sweet and salty at the same time?”
She smiles and then winks. “You said you liked my taste when you were eating me out.”
I burst into laughter, shaking my head. “I love you, Eleanor, my sweet girl.”
She stares at me, her mouth opens slightly and I wait for her reaction. “Oh, keep talking like that and I’ll be lying in a puddle of slick.”
It’s not what I expected, but I can’t expect anything else. Internally, I sigh. Externally, I pretend everything is perfectly normal.
She tries and fails to turn me on the bed. “I want to be on top,” she moans.
“Pretty please,” I say, rubbing my nose over her neck, pressing my scent into her flesh.
She grumbles. “I want Gabe. Not his alpha.”
I smile. “You do.” I take hold of her waist and spin us on the bed until she is on top. “Thank you.”
She holds her finger in the air. “Now. Let’s start as we mean to go on. I love that you saved me. I love that you wanted me so much you were prepared to lose me to protect me. And to be honest with you, I knew you were mine the second I saw you. You give me the feels. The same as Jake does, and the same as Walker does. I never understood it was happening until I was with all three of you. And...” She gives me a little smile. “I love you, Gabe.”
She loves me.
My dick is desperate to be inside her. Knotting her and making her mine. I grind against her core. “Ride me.”
“I might beg you to claim me,” she says softly. Her eyes lighting up, letting me know she will one day do just that.
I feel breathless.
Light shines through the window, casting a warm glow over her golden hair. “I love you, Ella.”
She smiles as the air between us bubbles.
Ella snuggles against my chest. Her fingers grazing over my taut muscles and lower until she is dragging my boxers lower.
“Ella,” I warn. Not sure why, when I want her so much, I could die.
