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."

swallows rough around the lump in

become accustomed to the world. And she's going to want you, and you're going to want her. Even though

to be normal in this world,”

think she's pretty?" Daphne asks,

from his

didn't hear me, Sinclair," she says, narrowing

laughs a little but then sighs. "Yes, Midnight is

to be letting him go. "She's your mate. It's going to happen someday - you'll love

believe it. 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

Jesse," Daphne whispers, reaching out and cupping his

eyes and leans into her hand. "But I

over his cheek and slides her

fingertips brushing the stubble that starts on his jaw. "You won't

eyes, staring at her, thinking that

that...that there's no logic in the world that would support his conviction that Daphne is the girl he wants. Mates are it – end game. No other girl should be

more than that. More than

telling her that he loves her,

sweeps through Jesse on both ends - for how he's treating Daphne and Midnight

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