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?”

his tone, an insinuation that lingered between the words. I clenched my

to give him the satisfaction of

always looking for trouble, darted briefly towards the cabins’ entrance. A smug smirk stretched across his face. “Oh, really? Because from where I’m

to shatter it.

my nerves. “I have no doubt you two are fated mates,” he said, his voice dripping with

something I had expected Harry and I had our differences, but he

closer, his breath cold against my ear. “Maybe you should make your business less obvious then, little

noise of the party. I stood there, reeling

that had settled in my stomach. I knew Harry thrived on

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 might

Harry or anyone else believed

my conversation with Harry melted away. She looked unsure, almost vulnerable, wrapped in a

movement of

draped in moonlight, her bikini barely there. It was, in all honesty, a

around nervously. “It’s ridiculous, isn’t

me to close the gap between us. But

as I felt a strain in my swim trunks. I couldn’t let her or anyone else see

before she or anyone else could have a chance to see my arousal, sending a tidal wave of water

yelps and laughter filled the air, effectively drawing the attention

noticed Ella seated at the pool’s edge, her feet skimming

“I’m… not a great swimmer. Deep water makes me

help but smirk. “The Alpha Princess is afraid of water?” I asked teasingly, cocking my head to the side. Ella’s face darkened.

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