Chapter 30
It’s only through experience that I’m able to school my expression to keep from revealing my true feelings to
Diana.
“I will speak to my sons and make arrangements to fulfill your wish in identity,” she says.
“Thank you,” I tell her, honestly meaning it. It’s a relief to know that I will be labeled a Gamma, and be able to see my dreams through.
“You may go now,” Diana says, dismissing me simply. She lifts the book she had been reading before I arrived and doesn’t even look at me again.
Heart sinking once more, I turn and walk away, dragging my feet a little on the way back to the room.
Diana remains kind to me, but it’s not like it was.
I miss having a mother.
Hugh’s POV
I can’t stop thinking about our mystery mate.
That night we shared in the cabin… Gods, I could relive it a thousand times in my mind and it wouldn’t be enough.
The entire drive back home, I replay our time together again and again in my mind. She smelled so good, and her body had been so responsive.
I’d had women turn to putty under my hands and mouth before, a thousand times over, but nothing like this. With those past women, there was also some kind of barrier up between us. Our sex was always transactional, pleasure for pleasure.
With my mate, I want to give and give and give, and watch her fall apart. One night wasn’t enough. A hundred nights wouldn’t be enough..
I’ve never felt this way before about any woman. Usually I have my fill and move onto the next, but this one seems to stay in my mind, even after I arrive home.
I find my brothers in the living room. Wes reading, Conrad lifting weights in the corner, Declan sharpening one of his many knives.
No sooner do I enter the room, than I can’t wait anymore. Pulling out my phone, I send a message to my mate.
I want you under me again.
Even after clicking send, I don’t regret the message. This is so strange for me, to want the same woman more than
once.
I tolerated Kimber mostly out of convenience, not any sort of devotion or particular favoritism.
This is entirely different. I want to see this one woman again, to bury myself inside of her folds like I’m making a home there.
Is this what the mating bond does to people?
A message comes through a moment later. Checking my phone, I read, Patience.
The word makes me laugh. All three of my brothers look up from what they are doing to stare at me.
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Chapter 30
“What are you laughing about?” Conrad asks. “Do you have a new plaything?”
“Something like that,” I say.
“Do you have a picture?” Wes asks. “You always find the most beautiful women.”
“I wouldn’t mind seeing her either,” Conrad says.
+25 BONUS
My brothers are likely feeling slightly chuffed after losing their girlfriends. They were more dedicated than I was to Kimber.
But that doesn’t mean I’m going to share her.
“No picture,” I say, but then I tap my temple with my finger. “Everything I need is in here.”
“Usually you like to show off,” Declan points out.
“This one is different,” I say.
“What, do you love this one?” Wes asks. “She must be special, then.
“I don’t love anyone,” I say. “But this little fox I’m seeing, she refuses to meet anyone. And if she doesn’t want to be shared, then I’m not keen on sharing her.”
My brothers and I are very close, and before I went to see our mate, I planned on telling them some of the encounter.
Yet, now that it has happened, I don’t feel so inclined anymore.
With the way she bucked and begged beneath me, crying my name as I brought her pleasure for the first time…
No, that’s not experience I want to share, not even with my brothers who I might have shared anything else with.
Right now, with our fated mate, I’m feeling uncharacteristically possessive.
And I don’t even care about this change in me.
I just know that… she’s mine.
Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
