Chapter 1010

"I'm saying," Midnight says, freely crying now, cupping Jesse's face in her tiny hands. "That I – I don't want to have your pups, Jesse. Ever. Ever. I don't want them." She shakes her head, vehement. "I think I'd be a bad mom. I'd leave them at the grocery store and forget they were there. I - I just don't want it."

He swallows hard, listening as she spills out her truth.

"And I don't want to kiss you," she continues, her little chin shaking as she stares up at him with her wide dark eyes. "And it's not that you're not handsome -"

He smirks a little at this, making her laugh. She smacks his cheek lightly with her palm. "You stop that, I'm being serious here -"

He does his best not to smile and nods, letting her know he's listening, intently. To all of it.

"Jesse," she says, sighing hard, her shoulders slumping. "I don't want to be your mate. I don't want to do the romantic stuff. I love you so, so much but...all of that?" she says, tossing out a hand to encompass the whole world. "I want that more. I want to be free. I don't want to be tied."

"I would never try to tie you, Mids," Jesse says, lifting a hand to stroke over her hair. "Being a mate - it's not like that -"

breaks now as she hangs her head, shaking it. "I wish I'd had a choice.

she sees him crying too. "You might...you might change your mind. You

charge of me, making whatever weird choices I want, without worrying about who they affect and who wants me to choose what. I never got to choose. I want to choose.

her arms around his neck and presses her face into his shoulder, crying hard. They hold

whispers, his whole body shaking. "You're...so incredibly important

whispers. "I'll still be family. Right? Would that be okay? I can

his arms, terrified at the thought that she wouldn't be. "Midnight Sinclair. I think...it

to his

Bet

in the eyes, smoothing a hand over her hair. you've thought about it, Midnight. And it's what you really want.

through her tears. Just

you, Jesse Sinclair. I love

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