Mate (Bride, #2)

by Ali Hazelwood

Look at her. Just—look at her.

Not even if all that’s left of the pack is me and her. I will paint this entire territory green before I let anyone in the pack spill a single drop of red. Okay?”

He easily resigned himself to a lifetime without her, but… Simply put, he is unwilling to contemplate a universe in which she no longer exists.

This is too stupid, even for me. “What about the fact that they are different species? What about science?” “You are so cynical. A little science could never stand between a frat boy and his desire for a monthly howl fest.”

When two people fall in love, how many nights do they spend together, doing absolutely nothing, before they’ve had their fill? How many silences and crosswords and mugs of tea do they share?

I could spend the next hundred years cataloging new things about him, and never be done. He could be the project of my lifetime.

Alpha instinct doesn’t normally concern itself with external approval, but Serena…she feels like another part of him. His heart, in another body.