Chapter 0409

- Josie -

"What's going on?"

Knox approaches me as I step out of the front door with Lobo, he has his spare motorcycle helmet in his hand.

"Let's go for a ride!" A charming smile lands across his face, his brown eyes the strongest they've looked in days.

"A ride, right now? Dad would have a fit!" I laugh out only to stop myself when I realise he is being completely serious. "Knox, the borders aren't safe."

"Then it's a good thing I want to take you out of the borders." He places the helmet in my hands before heading back towards his bike.

The engine roaring to life under his touch.

I start shaking my head at him, only to see that determined look in his eyes return and the alpha office door open hastily from behind. If I was to go, it would be now.

place the helmet over my head and follow in his footsteps,

He turns his head to wink at me before placing his

on my mind-link, he just missed us. I push back, I knew I shouldn't be leaving, but I knew I would be safe with Knox. I let him unwind, let the tension in his back and shoulders release as he drives us through the open

if I needed to, I could mind-link still...a fact I'm sure

us off the main roads and onto the country lanes where we

pulls up in a layby where his hands move on to me, his fingers snaking around my hips as I find myself lifted and placed in front of him...now straddling him on

helmet, his dark brown eyes brooding with unsaid emotion. Air chokes at the back of

know how much I love you?" His words knock the

hips up to my neck

automatically feed through my hair, his eyes

wanted a mate..." The contradiction to his last sentence forces a scoff out

“Charming.."

someone that was so strong. That I would spend the rest

to be completely useless. To not be able to help the woman that I loved. I've mourned an entire pack Red, my entire family were killed before my very eyes...I don't think I can survive that again." I'm frozen, both through choice and involuntarily. If I made any sound I would scare him off, he would close down on me. He was opening

out in a day. I witnessed it all, I was useless, I couldn't

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