Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games

"I can take the heat of losing to a girl." I laughed

"Oh, um, yeah, okay.

She was hesitating and I needed to know why, so I asked her. No more beating about the brush was us now that things were coming out in the open, Mates aren't supposed to lode anything from th other and I wanted to know everything about her.

“It's just, I don't know. I'm not very good with this stuff so I could be way off mark bere bo that you seem to get a little, uh, upset, when I mention other guys"

Okay, she was definitely onboard with brutal honesty.

"Guess I haven't been keeping that in check as much as I thought I was."

"It's okay, you kind of flipped out the other day about the, uh, tattoo when you saw it and I ca don't know how to explain it, but I can feel when you're unhappy about something, I don't abog know what, but I know when something's bothering you and I just didn't want to upset you realizing I was talking about the guys in the bar buying me drinks."

"You feel my emotions?"

She nodded. All this time I thought she wasn't really feeling the connection and the call to mating be maybe I was wrong.

"What else do you

feel?"

and I

are in the woods in your well for guarding my house. Like last night. I knew you were there

so why wouldn't she reciprocate? But the enormity of what she was saying was still stunning. We hadn't even mated and yet what I had been feeling and what she was telling me sounded very much like what I had always been told

between mates.

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"I'm not supposed to be feeling

the disappointment

told me and I had to make it right no matter how crazy it sounded. "Kelsey, we aren't supposed to feel each other on that level. Only bonded mates are supposed to be that aware of each other." I lifted her downcast head to face me.

mine and we held each other's stare. Even as mates, we shouldn't be able to do that for this long either. I knew deep down that whatever this was between us was different,

contact as she boldly asked.

Guys aren't supposed to

yeah, who

you get flustered. Elise and Lily were cluing me in on a few things today that they didn't think you had any business discussing with me." She frowned. "They don't know, do

shook my head. "No, and I'm sorry you had