Chapter 187

“Open your mouth.”

“Ella-”

“Don’t make me use my Luna Voice.”

That got a genuine laugh out of him, and he obediently opened his mouth. I fed him the bite of cake, trying to ignore how intimate the gesture felt in the quiet of his office. No one was here to watch or

photograph the moment. It was just… us.

“Good?” I asked.

“Really good.” Alexander smiled, but there was a smudge of chocolate frosting on his cheek that he’d missed when he’d wiped his mouth.

Without thinking, I leaned forward and kissed it off.

Alexander went completely still. Then he was pulling away from me so fast that I nearly fell off the desk.

“Ella, we can’t-”

face. I

tonight, with the kiss and everything…” I shook

misread the situation.”


“It’s not that simple.”

me. You kiss me when there

second we’re alone,

disease.”

Alexander flinched. “That’s not-”

bold. “What’s so wrong with me that you can’t stand the thought of actually wanting me? I know this marriage was

smaller than the others, and I hated how vulnerable

didn’t hurt when he pulled away from me. Tired of wondering what I’d

mate not

on his feet and blocking my path before I’d

down on either side of me and gripped the desk, effectively caging me in. “Don’t you dare say that. Don’t you

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explain it to me, because I

chest burn just looking at you. I want you so badly that sometimes I can’t even breathe when you’re in the same room. The mate bond just makes it ten times worse because every instinct I have is

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