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 met in the middle, and suddenly we


were too warm and soft against mine to be performative, and here, with no one to watch us, it couldn’t

Us

This was real.

badly

force shot through ge that wanted nothing other than

without thinking, my hands fisting in the fabric of his shirt. When his tongue traced the seam of my lips,

My mate. My husband

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without even meaning to, I hooked my leg over his waist. He gripped my hip and tugged me closer so our

groin. The evidence of his desire sent heat racing through my

was shifting so

approval, because only then did he pull back to look at me. His gaze wandered


the fabric was bunched up and wrinkled. Then the soft flesh of my thighs, and even lower-calves, feet. Back up again until

hunger in those green eyes was

that what we

natural thing in the world. Two mates exploring one

was precisely why, without hesitating, I sat up and pulled my nightgown over my

out across his lower lip. My

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