Chapter 303 Swimming Lessons

Logan.

As the gentle hum of the evening pool party enveloped me, my eyes kept darting towards the entrance to the cabins, eagerly waiting for Ella. She had been gone for what felt like an eternity, leaving me with a strange concoction of excitement and nervousness.

There was no denying that she was something special, even if our ‘relationship’ wasn’t what people believed it to be.

“I think she’s softening toward you,” my wolf said. “I could feel it tonight.”

“That means nothing,” I said. “She may be softening, just like they all do. But the fact of the matter is this: she’s out of my league, and from an entirely different world. We’d never last.”

I felt my wolf growl inside of me, but it was true. As much as I was fascinated with Ella, we were just too different. She was a goodie-two- shoes, a princess from the light side. I grew up on the dark side, and no matter how badly I, too, wanted to end all of this Mafia business, I knew that it was unlikely to happen. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

As I took another sip of my drink, I suddenly felt a cold presence slide up next to me. It was a feeling I had come to associate with one person and one person only-Harry.

“So, brother,” he drawled in that irritatingly condescending tone of his. “How are things with the new girlfriend?”

mockery in his tone, an insinuation that lingered

great,” I replied curtly, determined not to give him the

towards the cabins’ entrance. A smug smirk stretched across his

threatening to shatter it.

nerves. “I have no doubt you two are fated mates,” he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. “But don’t flatter yourself thinking. you’ve

had expected Harry and I had our differences, but he had a sharp instinct for sniffing out pretenses.

breath cold

behind him, mingling with the noise of the party. I stood there, reeling from the confrontation. It was never easy with Harry. He always had a

on seeing others uncomfortable, and I refused to let him have

once again darted to the entrance, hoping to see her emerge. My impatience was a clear indication of how much she’d already come to mean to me, even in the short time we had known each other. And while our relationship

or anyone else believed it

her took my breath away. The lingering tension from my conversation with Harry melted away. She looked unsure, almost vulnerable, wrapped in a towel, and the protective urge I

a single movement of

was, in all honesty, a bit much for my self-control, and I felt a rush

she asked, looking around nervously. “It’s ridiculous,

me to close the gap between us. But I couldn’t. I

trunks. I couldn’t let

else could have a chance to see my arousal, sending a tidal wave of

air, effectively drawing

my jump subsided, I noticed Ella seated at the pool’s edge, her feet skimming the surface of the water.

her lip. “I’m… not a great swimmer. Deep water

water?” I asked teasingly, cocking my head to the side. Ella’s face darkened.

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