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“Okay, pretty girl. I’ll be waiting right here. I’m not leaving your side for the rest of my life.” I snorted. Elegantly. Like a lady. “What if I die first?” “Not a chance. Absolutely unacceptable. We will die together, and I’ll accept nothing less.”
“You’re just a big snuggly beast, aren’t you?” Another huff, one that almost sounded amused. “Emme, for the love of my sanity, can you please step away from the most dangerous shifter beast in the world.” Hunter’s words were strained, which entertained me to no end.
“I’ve got you, baby girl,” he whispered. “Fall apart. Fall all the fucking way apart and trust me to hold the pieces. Until I put you back together.”
but there was just a weird freedom in blubbering on your girlfriends.
Finley still needed a few high fives. To the face. With a chair.
“Can you tell how it’s going?” I asked Jewels, voice so high it was almost at a pitch only wolves would hear. “He’s not moving…” “The battle continues,” was her cryptic reply. Oh, great. Thanks for that… Feels like you painted me a fucking picture and annotated every scene.
Humans always said “till death do us part,” but in the shifter world we meant it.
“I’ve got her,” I said shortly, and his eyebrows shot up as he examined me with one of his annoying and all-knowing stares. I narrowed my gaze. “Don’t fucking read into it.” Hunter held both hands up in front of him. “Let me know if it gets to be too much for you.” A rumbled snarl was my reply, but he took the hint and backed off.
“I love you too, pretty girl,” I whispered, dropping the phone by my side and wrapping her up with both arms. “I love you so much it hurts. You’re the other half of my soul, and now I need you to wake up so I can tell you that.”
“How do you know you’re not already marked on my skin?” Wait. Wait a hot freakin’ minute… My sight was laser focused on the dueling dragons, but if there was anything new there, I couldn’t see it in the dim light. “Are you serious?” Slade shrugged. “One day you’ll find out, Snow. But not today.”
So, yeah, it was partly my lack of routine but mostly… my heart hadn’t been in it without Kellan. Turned out hockey didn’t come before my pack, which was a hard and important lesson to learn.
“Flo is a hardcore Celtic’s fan,” Gerry said, following the direction of my gaze. “And I’m a hardcore Florence fan. It all works out.”
Entitled alphas knelt for no one; it was pretty much part of the package. They submitted themselves to no one, standing as the head of the pack. But he’d knelt for me. There was no mistaking his actions.
Touch her and die was my new motto.
“Even a king should kneel before his queen. You will never accept anything less, from anyone, including those in our pack. Promise me.”
“Promise me, Emmeline Anders. Promise me you will make them all kneel.”
“What you’ve gifted me is an honor I can never repay. I need you to know, Emme, that trusting me with your soul and your wolf… it’s more than I deserve, but I will work every day to be the alpha you deserve.” Oh, Hunter Reeves, you secret romantic.
“By season, really,” I continued, plastering the fakest smile on my face. “Because it’s important to be seasonal, you know? What if someone met me for the first time and couldn’t for the life of them figure out my season. Disaster, am I right?” For a second, I caught a glimpse of him clenching his teeth, but he smoothed that movement just as quickly. “A true disaster,” he replied, going as far as nodding along like he was in complete agreement.
Along with the glow, there was a set of giant, red dragon eyes peering down at me, also invisible until darkness hit. Below he’d written the words Game on, bestie.
I couldn’t remember the last time I felt as amused as when I switched off the lights and dozens of tiny green dragons glowed at me from their perches around the room. I’d even left them there to see again tonight.
It was the same interference she’d tried before, and when my system overrode it, a bark of laughter escaped me. Every shifter in the training facility jerked to a halt, staring at me like I had two fucking heads. “Back to training,” I snarled, and all of them swung away
