I raised an eyebrow at him, and he smirked at me before answering as he moved between my legs and rested his arms on my pillow. “Valen!” I growl, looking away but also not wanting to shove him off because the tingling sensation made my stomach warm and fuzzy. He chuckles but presses his weight against me when I don‘t shove him off.

“Then I will drop my borders for them,” Valen says, and my eyes snap to his.

“You would do that?” I asked and he nods. “Maybe once I do, the other packs may open their borders, too.”

“Valen, the media will destroy you for that,” I tell him and he shrugs.

“And after the Alpha meeting and I announce my mate is a rogue, it will give them something else to talk about. I don‘t care for my reputation Everly. No matter what, the media will find some way to destroy it, so why not give them something good to talk about, let them open the debate, then we can focus on changing their views,” he says before leaning down and brushing his nose across my cheek to my ear and down my jaw.

“Valen, it is impossible to think with you doing that,” I tell him as his hands bunch the shirt u pIam wearing at my hip.

“The don‘t think, just agree, you have no excuses now, Everly,”

“I can think of plenty,” I tell him as he nips at my jaw, making me groan and shudder beneath him.

“Are they all to do with the rogues and you thinking I am going to ruin you?” He murmurs before kissing down my neck. I nod, my eyes closing, loving the feel of his lips on my skin as I tried to keep my thoughts clear that were suddenly becoming hazier.

“Then let me prove it, tomorrow I will drop the borders and open the schools and my pack to the rogues,”

“You could just be saying that to get in my pants,” I tell him as his hand travels down my hipt o my thigh. He laughs softly.

“Well, that would be an added bonus, but you are not wearing any panties, so I don’t need to try and get into them,” My eyes fly open at his words. “I thought it would be a bit odd borrowing those when I am already wearing your shirt,” I tell him.

“What‘s mine is yours,” he says while tugging my shirt up higher.

And what’s mine will be yours if you mark me,” I tell him, a little bitterly. He pulls his face away from my neck and stares down at me. “You’re worried I will take everything from you, right?” I nodded and sighed.

What if I made it, so I can’t,” he asked.

“What do you mean?”

if I hand my pack over to

“What?”

give you my pack,” he says like it made

I can’t ask you to do that, and then what, you become my

“I‘m being serious, Valen,”

packs think, I will stand

 Luna maybe, but no, I have the rogues to worry about; I don‘t want to worry about pack issues on top, and technically you would still be

to mark you anyway, so you don’t die on me,” he says with

 a prenup

 no legal accountability

 you want me to do because you don‘t trust

 anything from you; you keep saying I will toss you away or make you give up helping the rogues; I won‘t. They are your village, Valarian‘s village, and his family. So don‘t trust me not to hurt you, trust

know he wouldn‘t. I knew that for certain, I could

 not, I may be a shitty mate well, not shitty, but you know what I mean, but I am good father, Everly. I would

 get a judge to sign

“What?”

to be signed over to Valarian, with me having total

a conservatorship?” he

nothing for you to take; it belongs to Valarian,” Valen shakes

“But?”

I own over to you,

 get back, Valen. You‘re an

me months in court,”

 own the courts,”

 in the human courts over to you, I

 gold

 just trust me, for once trust someone other than yourself, or give Zoe and Macey part ownership something, I can only control legally what you own, I can’t control it if it isn’t in

get a judge to do that, help me sign it over equally to Macey and Zoe?” I

like you said, they helped build that place, only fair they get half of it, you could probably do it yourself with a lawyer,” he

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