Page 80 of My Grumpy Alpha

“Breathe you say?”

“Yeah, you always smell so good, just like your apartment.”

“Pheromones.” I point out.

“You’re just drugged by them, it’s how we find our—“

She sits up.

“Your?”

I swallow and look away.

“Our mate.”

"And once you find your mate, you and I will be…” She looks away.

“Right…it won’t matter.”

I open my mouth to say something, to break the tense mood, instead I go into the bedroom and call over my shoulder.

“I’ll grab you some clothes.”

I snatch a pair of grey sweatpants and a white t-shirt, but by the time I’m back in the living room she’s sound asleep on the couch.

I do my best to change her clothes without her waking up and then I stare at her like the freak I am.

I touch her cheeks.

I caress her skin.

I wish for more.

And realize how petrified I am to ask for it.

This isn’t a marriage proposal, this isn’t dating, this is an eternity and I don’t think someone like her, someone so great—should be trapped with someone like me.

Chapter 28

For When I See You Again

AVA

I wake up to the smell of bacon.

I sniff the air and then look down at my clothes. He must have made me comfy while I slept.

See, this is the problem.

He’s not just my boss, or a werewolf of lore, but he’s also cruel at times then, so sweet I want to cry.

My emotions are all over the place, and my dreams, well those are just a different scenario all together.

I’m running through the forest still.

Friends follow me. At least I think they’re my friends, and a boy stands next to me, we’re both maybe eleven.

In the dream, he’s crying.