Chapter 29
“Wake up!”
My eyes fly open as a hand slaps across my mouth, accompanying the whispered words. I gasp in a quick breath of air through my nose, but as soon as I realize that it’s Jesse –
“Asshole,” I breathe, though the word is muffled against his palm. I start to swat at him, wanting to
back to sleep.
go
“No way,” he whispers, grinning at me over the edge of my bed. “You’re coming with me – we are having this long–delayed chat.”
And before I can even protest, Jesse grabs me by the collar and starts to drag me from my bunk. I give a little gasp of surprise but then nk my uniform from his hands, turning and find my c way down before Jesse hauls me bodily to the ground. Because while Rafe will probably sleep through a couple of whispers, he is not going to sleep through my sound of my body hitting the floor.
And Rafe – he cannot know what Jesse knows. Not after yesterday’s surprise.
So I glare at my cousin as my feet hit the floor, scowling as I snatch my boots out of his waiting hand. He’s still grinning at me as he nods his head to the right and I nod, following him away from the bunks and towards the front of the barracks.
I glance over my shoulder at the bulk that is Rafe, sleeping soundly in the bottom bunk of our bed, and when we get far enough away that we probably won’t be heard I give Jesse a hearty shove on the shoulder.
“What the hell were you thinking,” I growl, stopping by the door to tug my
boots on.
“I was thinking,” Jesse says, pushing the door open and gallantly bowing me through into the night. air, “that we need a little cousin time, just to ourselves, to discuss a certain little secret
“Okay fine,” I hiss, pushing the barracks door hastily shut as soon as Jesse skirts out of the way, looking around to make sure that we actually are alone. Because, I mean, these doors are unguarded, and other candidates could be anywhere.
And this conversation? I desperately want it to be private.
“Come on.” Jesse says, still gleeful, and he heads for the path that we usually take in the morning when we go for our run, leading me to the top of a sparse hill where we can see for about fifty feet in every direction.
Up here on the top of the hill? We definitely, completely know that we’re alone.
“Jesse, I sigh, trying to figure out how I want to navigate this –
he just shoves me, hard, on the shoulder.
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glaring at me.
Jesse is not going to give me
give
shoulders and hanging my head a little bit. “Luca’s my mate. I’m
before I can get any further, my eyes fly open because
a fist up into the air. “This is amazing! This is the best,
a grin because I mean – this is not what I expected. “What
face in two directions “don’t you see how great. this is!?” He strides forward, putting his hands on my shoulders and giving me a little shake, “I mean, Rafe and I – we already like Luca – he’s already our friend! You could have been mated to anyone in here – a real loser, or a
I really like Luca too. I never dreamed that if I had a mate it would be someone who is
looking Jesse up and down. “You’re not pissed?”
have told me as soon as you knew, but I mean – I’ll get over that. But Luca – I mean, he’s going to be
hear Jesse’s words, and then I go completely red
I mean
not thought that
conclusion of these things mate, Luca becoming part of our family, I mean
with my
fated
his voice suddenly
say, looking up at my
“I mean –”
“I’m so sorry, Ari –
guy-
that I’m…“I hesitate now, and then gesture at myself
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am: his mate, a girl, a princess, the daughter of a seriously powerful Alpha who is not going to react well to meeting anyone who has a romantic claim on his little girl no maner how cute their dimples
much more than
eyebrow at him and crossing
hand through his hair and turning around to
at me again, “but I thought you were using the drearn
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