Chapter 0401

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My body moved on its own. Suddenly, I sprung into full action, grabbing Nicholas and pulling him closer. I put my mouth straight on his neck and started sucking in a mark. I didn’t know where her scent was but I had to remove it

now.

“Piper, ah…” Nicholas moaned. His fingers clenched where they sat at my waist.

When my mark was red enough, I placed another and another. All along the column of his neck.

Then I inhaled. Shit. That damned scent was still there.

I felt wild, like I was losing myself. A growl sounded from the back of my throat.

Nicholas finally seemed to notice. He removed his grip from my waist, to grip my hands instead. He pressed them down into the mat, then used that leverage to push himself upright, out of range of my eager mouth.

My growl was deeper, angrier. I needed to get my scent on him. I was desperate for it.

He still smelled like her.

“Piper, stop fighting me.” He was using his Alpha voice again. It was deep and low and shivered through me. I stilled at once. “Good.” The praise felt even better. He noticed that too. “Good girl.”

A soft whimper escaped the back of my throat.

“Piper, keep being a good girl for me and tell me what is going on.”

I licked my lips and tried to focus my thoughts. I still felt wild and scattered, but my Alpha mate was asking me a question and I could answer it.

“You smell like her…” I said. I didn’t recognize my own voice, it was so rough.

Nicholas blinked at me. “What? Who?”

“Bridget,” I spit out the name. “You are carrying her scent.

“I am…? Oh. She hugged me this morning.”

My growl became more prominent.

“”

“You spend so much time with her, that she has begun to scent you.”

not like that,” Nicholas said, though he seemed

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he was remembering an errant hug, or a stray touch that lingered too long at his wrist or throat.

to

idea,” Nicholas said.

voice

now. He

ly see

his honesty

straight in my eyes, as if asking that I believe

good match.” Tears rose in my eyes. I hated

to admit anything,” he

lips to the tears that shed from my eyes. Kiss after

been neglecting you,” he said.

needy to suggest

honest with me,” he

sniffled. “I miss you.”

“I’m so sorry, Piper. Please believe me when I tell

be the one he wanted most, but in the wake of that comfort and good feeling, came a wash of fresh sadness. I might have been the one Nicholas

the best chance at becoming Nicholas’s Luna. The royal family likely knew that. I wondered if her appearance was

that Nicholas ended up with the

Don’t be sad.”

“Kiss me like tomorrow will never come and we can

placed his lips to my throat and clasped them

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whole body shivered. I

pulled back, he licked at the angry mark he made, easing the pain.

you,” he said, like

know I had always been his? Ever since the Academy? Maybe even long before I met

“Please,” I said.

my wrists. “Keep your hands here.”

I nodded.

his shirt, and yanked it clean over his head. His chiseled chest was glistening with sweat. My mouth watered at

aside, then looked down at mine. He plucked

I want your hands right back where they were once it’s gone,

I nodded.

gently, brought it up over my head. I leaned upwards to help him remove it. When it was gone, I laid right back down and returned my hands where they

tossed the shirt to the side.

me. I was sweaty too.

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