Chapter 139

Chapter 139

Ella

Alexander’s arms were warm and secure around me, his heartbeat steady beneath my ear. The calm rhythm of it chased away the fear, the doubt… everything outside that room.

“How did you know where to find me?”

“Lilith managed to get a picture of the car,” he replied. “I recognized it immediately. It was Sophia’s.”

I jerked my head up to look at him, making it spin. “Did Sophia hire someone to kidnap me?”

As soon as I blurted out those words, I feared I’d overstepped. Alexander still adored Sophia above all else—he wouldn’t take kindly to such an accusation. Surely he would say that Sophia hadn’t had anything to do with it. Perhaps her car had been stolen.

“I don’t know,” he replied. “But I’m going to find out. And if that were the case, then I assure you, she’ll be punished.”

I blinked in surprise. I hadn’t expected him to even entertain my statement, let alone promise that he would punish her.

For a moment, I just searched his face in the moonlight streaming through the window. There was something fierce in his green eyes, something possessive that made my heart flutter.

“Thank you,” I breathed, leaning up to press a soft kiss to his cheek. “Thank you for saving

me.”

skin, Alexander turned his head. Our mouths


soft against mine to

Us

This was real.

badly

through ge that wanted nothing other than to hold onto this

thinking, my hands fisting in the fabric of his shirt. When his tongue traced the seam of my lips, I opened for him without hesitation. The

My mate. My husband

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my leg over his waist. He gripped my hip and tugged me closer so

when I felt it: the hard length of his arousal against my groin. The evidence of his desire sent heat racing through my veins, and my body responded instinctively. Something deep inside of

have time to wonder if she was returning, because then he was shifting so he was on top of me, his

only then did he pull back to look at me. His gaze wandered unabashedly across my face,


down. Down to where my peaked nipples were visible through my nightgown. Down to my hips, where the fabric was bunched up and wrinkled. Then the soft flesh of my thighs, and even

hunger in those

what

the world. Two mates exploring one another, experiencing

sat up and pulled my

eyes widened slightly, tongue flicking out across his lower lip. My heart pounded, but I held his

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