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“I didn’t scent lemon when I climbed between your sheets last night,” he says huskily. “Didn’t scent any this morning when I was fantasizing about spearing you on my knot, flipping that vibe on your clit, and making you scream my name like you remember I’m yours.”
My heart quakes. “Reese…”
“See? You keep saying it like that. Like you don’t want me back.” His chocolate scent stabs, sharp and bittersweet. “If I’m not good enough—”
“Don’t,” I bark. When he freezes, I flip our positions, forcing his back to the wall. The syringe case clatters. “We had a deal. No reading into my moods.”
Reese’s heavy breath stirs my hair. “Then spell it out for me.”
“Which part?”
Reese slides down the wall.
I stop breathing when his knees hit the floor.
He pulls my fingers to his lips, tickling them with his beard. “Do you want me or not? I can be your alpha or whatever you need me to be, but if I’m yours and you’re mine, then I need you to trust me.”
My throat scrapes. “I do trust you.”
Always have.
Probably more than I trust myself.
Reese purrs against my fingertips. “Then trust that I’d never trade you for anyone, and let me yeet those fucking needles into the sea.”
I wasn’t built to say no to a Reese on his knees.
It’s not like I was going to keep injecting. Last night taught me a valuable lesson about mixing mayonnaise and experimental drugs.
And after this morning…
I’m in good hands with the Meadows pack.
The best possible hands.
I don’t know how much I can show the parts of me I’ve always had to shove down, suppress, and mask, but if I’m going to try opening up, I want to try showing everything I am to them without worrying how our story ends.
Just move forward.
One breath at a time.
I press my knuckles to Reese’s lips. “You can keep the case.”
“I’ll lob it over the equator.”
“Okay.”
“And one more thing?”
“Sure.” Just take it all.
“Say my name like I’m your alpha.”
I tear my fingers from his mouth and grab his cheeks so I can cop a feel of that beard while I tilt his face and force him to see what he does to me.
No more shields.
Stripped bare. For him. “Reese.”
