#Chapter 407 – Meet Me There

Cora

Roger’s silent for a long time, smirking at me, making me answer.

“I make no promises,” I reply after a long moment, shaking my hair back in a lofty way that makes him laugh. “But seriously, what is it?”

“Well,” Roger sighs, letting his shoulders drop and looking at me squarely now that some of the tension is gone. “Sinclair wants to give us more than a house now. He also wants to give us…a wedding.”

My jaw drops a little. “A wedding?” I ask, baffled. “But we’re…we’re wolves,” I say, wrinkling my nose. “Or at least – mostly wolf,” I say, glancing down at my belly where my little hybrid baby is growing.

“Yeah, he wants it to be a wedding and a mating ceremony at once – a symbolic uniting of the wolf and human worlds. Because I’m a wolf,” he says, pointing to himself, “and you’re a human,” he continues, pointing to me. “Or at least, sort of.”

I still shake my head, confused.

“And he wants it to be on TV,” he says, grimacing as he drops the final bomb, “like a royal wedding, for the entire world to see.”

And, just as Roger predicted, I immediately get very, very pissed off.

“This is such bullshit,” I murmur, pulling my cell phone out of my back pocket and immediately starting to text Ella to tell her precisely what I think of this plan.

“Wait,” Roger says, laughing a little and reaching for the phone, “just give it a minute -”

told you, like a thousand times, that I want our mating ceremony – whatever it is 1 to be special, and meaningful? I mean, if we were just going

you want, all right? So, let’s

phone on the counter, sliding it away from me. “Okay,” I agree, nodding

his forehead against mine. “Why did that make you so

sigh, sorting through my emotions as best I can. “Because what we have, Roger,” I continue, putting my hands on his chest, “it’s so important to me. It’s – it’s the best thing I’ve got, and so

understanding then, drawing me closer and wrapping his arms

voice slightly muffled against his shoulder, “and like…the nation, or whatever. I just…this is important to me. I want

me up even tighter, making me

then, sighing with relief that I have him on my side and that I just have him at all –

he says after a few long moments of relaxing against each other, “can I just give you the mark

I shriek, going tense

to do it publicly- why

back from Roger, staring up at him, trying to

see the big wicked grin on his face I scowl and smack him on the chest, knowing that he’s teasing me. “No, Roger,” I growl. “I still want it to be right! I’m not going

place where my neck meets my shoulder, where he intends to

I reply, shaking my head and stepping away. You’re just listening

as he laughs. “Seriously, Cora, it’s bite her now, do it! On a constant refrain,

a little howl of triumph. I want it too, she says, giving a

arms over my chest, “says your wolf is being an

Roger growls, grabbing me by the waist again and pulling me close, obviously. Like man, like wolf. This is

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