Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 196 Two Supposed Mates

Lexi didn’t even know why she was crying or how long she had been crying for. All she did know was that she was furious with herself for letting a prick like Allen get under her skin so easily.

There was no way that he was her mate, was there? Her father had said that the bonding between daemons and their mates was eternal. You only got one in your lifetime and quite honestly, the thought of being bonded to Allen for the rest of her life… the mere thought of it was driving her slowly insane.

She was so confused about her feelings for him. How was it possible to want to f“k someone to an inch of their life…but also want to murder them with everything you had in you? Wasn’t that the sort of toxic relationship that she had spent her life trying to avoid?

Then why did she feel so empty without him near?

She groaned loudly and turned onto her back on the luxurious bed, casting her eyes around the room for the first time she had arrived there.

that. The smell of solid wood, when it had been freshly polished, had always given her a sense of peace. Perhaps it was a residual memory from her

mother insisted on having wooden furniture…the old heirlooms passed down through generations from her

room felt like home…this pack.. felt like home.. it was nothing to do with

the bathroom, and when she caught sight of her tear-streaked face in the full-length mirror and her bedraggled hair she swore

this state. If you looked weak, then people treated you differently and she didn’t want that. Especially not in the heart of a pack

strode to her case and grabbed a change of clothes before heading back to the bathroom to freshen up. They would only see the best that she had to offer here. No more playing games and chasing and

No.

work for it. She was done chasing. It was his turn now. No sooner had she pulled the dress down over herself, was she disturbed by a knock at the door. She smoothed her hair down and checked her reflection in the mirror before heading over to

on his face that he

as he

Lexi answered cooly, as her stomach erupted in butterflies. “Look, I don’t want things to be difficult between

was blank, but his eyes were full of a pain that she didn’t recognize. “Lexi, everything that happened at the Enclave,

of time trying to convince me that I was the furthest thing from desirable that you thought anything could

an i***t. I’m sorry. I… I was scared…” Allen answered mournfully

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