Chapter Eighty-Two: The good kind of sore

Tillie

Pulling away from Gideon, I stood straight. His hands moved over my hips before traveling up my back. He kept

his palms flat and his fingers splayed out like he was trying to touch as much of my skin as he could. He leaned closer to me, pressing his chest against my back before kissing my shoulder with a soft kiss.

“Thank you, Tillie.” He whispered and I looked over my shoulder at him. His eyes were glassy with unshed tears and I felt my heart ache for him.

Shifting around, I brought my hand up to his cheek. Stroking the soft skin of his face. I worried my lower lip, Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I just- I never thought being with my mate would feel like this.” He whispered, his face moving closer to mine. I closed my eyes, letting him kiss me. It was like he was trying to tell me things that he wasn’t yet ready to say

I moved my arm around his waist, trying to give him as much reassurance as I could. He let go of my lips, looking down at me with that same almost sad expression on his

face. His brows were drawn together and there was a wrinkle forming between them. I brushed my fingers over that spot. I didn’t want him to worry about anything and I wished he could tell me what it was that was bothering him so much.

I could say that would help him. “I’m not going anywhere.” || tucked my head against his

you.” He whispered again before leaning away from me. He looked over at Jason, his lower lip trembling, before he spoke

you don’t need to alpha me. You are both mine. I

was with before us must not have treated him right for him to be so hesitant with us. That was okay. I knew that Gideon was my mate too and I

moved out of the shower and I

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and the bottle of body wash. He uncapped the pale purple glass bottle, lifting it to his

“You don’t like it?”

smell like you.” He said, dumping some of the clear liquid onto the puff before sitting the body wash down onto the ledge of the shower. He wasn’t wrong.

and he smiled at me. It was a soft, bashful smile that made my

“If you want.”

time gentle cleaning the claiming marks that my Jason and Ryan had left on me. Each touch made my skin tingle

he moved down to my breasts. Taking special care to clean

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