#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 -”

I snap, looking up at him, my anger transferring immediately from my sister to my mate. “After I’ve told you, like a thousand times, that I want our

So, let’s put the phone and the rage away for a few minutes and just talk about this. But no one is

the counter, sliding it

putting his hands on my hips and pulling me close, resting his forehead against mine. “Why did that make you so angry? It was just

hands on his chest, “it’s so important to me. It’s – it’s the best thing I’ve

soft, sweet noise of understanding then, drawing me closer

not that I don’t want to help Ella,” I say, my voice slightly muffled against his shoulder, “and like…the nation, or whatever. I just…this is important

arms wrapping me up even tighter, making me smile. “I understand, and I agree. It’s a no for

I just have him at all – I let my body relax against Roger’s and breathe in his warm,

moments of relaxing against each other, “can

going tense

to do it publicly-

back from Roger, staring up at him, trying to ascertain whether or not

the chest, knowing that he’s teasing me. “No, Roger,” I growl. “I still want it to

stepping close and lifting a hand to slide his fingers under my shirt to the place where my neck meets my shoulder, where he intends to mark me. “And you smell amazing right now –

field hospital,” I reply, shaking my head

back even as he laughs. “Seriously, Cora, it’s bite her

raising her snout smugly to the sky and giving a little howl of triumph. I want it too, she says,

smugly, crossing my arms over my

and pulling

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