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Chapter 6

AUSTIN

I waited patiently by the bedroom door for Aria to finish, pacing up and down. Fortunately, nobody sees me like this, or my image as the dominant Alpha would take a hit. I think this is the first time I've found myself in this position, waiting stupidly outside a closed door for the person behind to open it and talk to me. But for her... oh goddess... I'd spend a lifetime waiting behind a closed door if it meant spending even one minute alone with her.

I know it didn’t go the best way but at least now she knows everything and I can finally be 100% honest with her and tell her how I feel about her. I feel fragile and I don't like it. Nervousness is a feeling I've never felt in my life and never thought I'd feel. I thought my meeting with my mate would be completely different, I thought she'd be a werewolf and that love at first sight would be immediate and reciprocal. But never, oh never, had I considered the possibility that my fated mate could be a human and that she wouldn't feel everything I feel for her through the bond.

The door suddenly opens, she looks at me with her eyebrows furrowed, she’s traded in her jeans and t-shirt for leggings and a long white t-shirt, and her long wet black hair falls over her shoulders. She's sexy even when she's not trying to be, and I don't think it's just because of the bond. In the evenings I've spent watching her, I've seen her catch the eye of many of the bar's patrons, and I'm relieved she'll never set foot there again.

“This is all Riley found,” she tells me as I enter the room. The room already smells of her, even though she's only been there a few hours, and I have a terrible urge to sleep in that bed with her beside me.

“You could wear a garbage bag, I’d still think you were gorgeous.” I tell her honestly.

“Yeah because of the bond.” She rolls her eyes crossing her arms. She's so fucking cute when she does that, plus she pushes her breasts up under her t-shirt and she's not wearing a bra. Look up. Look up. I clear my throat.

“Do you know how it works?” I ask her as I close the door behind me.

“I’ve been reading about shifters so...”

“Got any questions?”

“Why should I believe you when you say I’m your mate when Adam said the same thing?”

I sigh but try to hide my annoyance. "I have no fucking idea why that punk said that to you. One thing's for sure, I know how I feel. How I felt the moment I laid eyes on you. You're my mate. You're mine.” I run my hands through my hair.

“So what are the three of us? We...”

What is she thinking? What the fuck are those books she’s reading? I won’t share her. I will never! It's totally against our nature to share. My wolf growls dangerously and I do my best to keep him at bay and prevent him from marking her on the spot.

“We? We?! There is no we! There’s just you and me, that’s all.” I pause as I look at her, confusion written all over her face.

“We’re only supposed to have only one mate, but sometimes it happens that we’re a second chance mate.”

"So according to you... Adam could be my second chance mate..." She starts but I cut her off.

“First of all avoid saying his name," I growl. "Secondly you would be his second chance mate because I’m still here.” I sighed. “Look, I know you must be confused because I am too. But I know you and I are real so if you give me a chance to show you, I know you’ll see it too.”

“Okay.” She answers shaking her head as if she wasn’t believing it herself.

“Okay?” I ask her with a raised eyebrow. I thought that it might be more difficult to convince her.

"I accept because as strange as it sounds, I feel terribly attracted to you… no offense. I mean you’re really really handsome but it’s more than that. » She sighs. « And I want to untangle this situation. I feel that's what I have to do. I don't know how to explain it."

I walk over to her and do what I’ve been wanting to do since the moment my eyes landed on her, I kiss her. And she kisses me back. It’s the best kiss of my life, it’s even better than all those times I imagined it. I run my hands behind her neck and up behind her head and she moans as she clings to me. My body is invaded by a multitude of sparks and I know she feels it by the way her body stiffens... she's surprised. She moans again and I feel my cock harden instantly. Fuck, I'd give anything to hear that sound again and again.

I step back slightly so as not to scare her with the monster I've got under my pants and look her in the eye.

“If you only knew how much I wanted this.” I confide in her with a small smile.

“I wanted it too, otherwise I would have kneed you in the balls.” She laughs when she notices my wide eyes. "One day I'll show you the moves my brothers taught me." She adds with a wink.

What she says does nothing to dampen my excitement as I imagine her fighting hand-to-hand.

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