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The conversation ended, and despite the fact that we’d argued a bit, I couldn’t shake my smile when I started working again.
thirteen
MADD
The guy wasn’t a threat,so I didn’t stay to watch him for long. I did catch Vee for her second break, though, and she accepted another cup of coffee with immense appreciation. That made me feel good.
She worked fourteen hours that day, and sent me a picture of her lunch after I reminded her to. It was smaller than I would’ve liked, but at least I knew she ate.
After she got off work, I cooked for her. The conversation flowed easily, and she seemed to get over whatever nervousness she’d had that morning.
When we were done eating, we took care of the dishes together, and she promptly stumbled into bed and fell asleep.
It made my wolf and I violent to know that she’d be up in a few hours. It wasn’t nearly enough time to catch up on the sleep she’d lost when we stayed up late the night before. But she was determined to be independent. What choice did I have but to let her?
I hadn’t anticipated mating with an alpha female, but there was no argument that she wasn’t one. My girl was an alpha, through and through.
And it was sexy as hell.
I’d thought I was attracted to her when she was sweet and delicate, but that desire had nothing on the insane lust I had been raging against since she started arguing with me.
Staring at her unconscious form in our bed, my wolf had one thought I agreed with:
“She belongs to us.”
Desire burned in my body, but I could fight it.
Before I made her mine physically, I needed to persuade her to see that we would be better together than alone.
And all I needed for that, was time.
fourteen
LOVE
When my alarmwent off the next morning, I already felt like shit.
My body had adjusted to drinking from Madd—Archer—quickly, and it wasn’t ready to be downgraded tohungryagain.
Madd—Archer, dammit—groaned something incoherent as he rolled out of bed. There was still a wall of pillows between us that I’d put there before I fell asleep, so there was no detangling my limbs from his.
He’d legitimately putfive thousanddollarsin my wallet for lunch the day before, so I felt obligated to call him by the name he’d put in my phone. He obviously wanted me to use it, and I wasn’t enough of a bitch to refuse. Especially considering how much effort he was putting in.
And the soul-deep conversation we’d had after our run together.
I still felt vulnerable after that, and it wasn’t a feeling I liked.
I stumbled to the bathroom, and blinked at what I found there.
An expensive blow drier sat in a simple, classy holder on the wall.
A curling iron was beside it. It was the same size as the one I usually used to fix my waves when necessary—which I’d left with Tori, since she used it even more than me.
A thick robe hung on the wall beside the dark gray towel hooks.
Bottles of fruit-scented lotions sat on the counter.
