Chapter 0909

And as he knew she would, Daphne tilts her head back and laughs – long and peeling. He smiles a little, watching her, relishing that. Daphne - she's not easily offended, and she has enough self-confidence not to let herself be hurt by such a deeply untrue judgment.

"Oh, god," Daphne says, still laughing and wiping a little beneath her eye. "Maybe...let's not introduce this one to my mother."

"No problem," he sighs.

Daphne smiles over at him, soft. "You've had some serious adventures, your Grace."

"You're avoiding the question, seamstress," he murmurs, his mouth turning up at the corners.

She raises an eyebrow in challenge.

"What do you think?" he asks, wanting to know her true opinion on the whole situation all of it.

"I think," she says with a little sigh, looking down at the kitten, understanding it all. "That...we had a good run, Jess. But I can't keep loving you if you have a mate, bond accepted or no."

"Are you in love with me now?" he asks, quietly.

She raises her eyes to his. "Please don't make me answer that."

the lump in his throat. "But, given time

going to become accustomed to the world. And she's going to want you, and you're going to want her. Even though you're not

this world,”

think she's pretty?" Daphne

his eyes to look at

me, Sinclair," she says, narrowing her eyes

but then sighs.

acting her heart out, pretending to be happy and peaceful and beatific about it all, while inside her wolf howls in agony to be letting him go. "She's your mate. It's going to happen someday - you'll love each other. I don't...want to be drug along for weeks or months or years just to be left at the end. Leave me now, in peace and...we'll have had a good

Unable to accept it. He sits up, leaning close, looking steadily into her eyes. "You know that there's more to us than that, Daphne – than just a good run.

mate, Jesse," Daphne whispers, reaching out and cupping his cheek in her palm. "I can never, ever

into her hand. "But

rushes her thumb once over his cheek and

starts

eyes, staring at her, thinking that she's

also that...that there's no logic in the world that would support his conviction that Daphne is the girl

than that.

telling her that he loves her, that he wants her

- for how he's

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