Page 15 of Selkie AU: Beyond the Storm

I sighed. “I didn’t ru—”

“You did.”

I frowned. Well, I suppose I hadn’t exactly been subtle about it when I’d stormed out of here earlier. “Okay. You’re right.”

“Don’t you like me?”

My chest ached. “That’s not it, Milo. I like you very much.”

“Then why do you want me to go already?” Milo crossed his arms over his chest as he slumped back in the chair.

“It’s not that I want you to go.”

“Then what?”

“What do you mean ‘Then what?’ You don’t live here, Milo.”

“Why can’t I live here?”

“BecauseIlive here.”

“Yes. With me.”

“You want to live here with me?”

“Yes.”

My mouth opened. Closed. Opened. I really didn’t know what to say to that. “You can’t,” I landed on eventually.

“Why? We’re going to be mates. We need to live together.”

“Mates?” I exclaimed.

Milo rolled his eyes at me again. “That’s what I said.”

“I… but… we’re both… We don’t even know each other.”

“Well, we won’t get to know each other if I go back to the colony.”

I stood up, grabbing the plates from the table and taking them over to the kitchen sink to scrub them clean. Once they were, I switched to cleaning up the rest of the kitchen as well, so I had something other than a pouty selkie to focus on.

Milo’s eyes were heavy on my back as he waited for me to argue with him, but he was so difficult to argue with when what he said and did hardly relied on any form of logic I’d experienced before.

“We aren’t mates, Milo,” I said once the kitchen was scrubbed clean and I felt a little calmer and brave enough to look at him again.

“Not yet.”

“Not at all.”

He stood up with enough force that his chair fell backward and slammed against the floorboards. “Why not?”

“Because. I’m not a selkie.”

“So?”

“So, I think that’s rather important.”

“Well, I don’t. I know you find me attractive. I saw your dick get hard for me.”