Chapter 49-2
“No.”
My smile dimmed. “No?”
“You’re trying to distract me with sex again, and we’re not doing that anymore.”
Well, damn. Wasn’t that what I’d just said? Here he was agreeing like a good little mate.
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“Morven is here and you’re on edge. You don’t want to feel vulnerable. I understand, but when I tell you how amazing you are, it is not to make you vulnerable. It’s so that maybe you can finally start to see your true self. I wish I’d done more for you sooner, but I’m here now, and I won’t let you keep hiding from yourself,”
His fingers grazed under my chin, tilting my face toward his. Gentle. Warm. Like I was something
precious.
I leaned into the touch, a breath catching in my chest. “Well. If we’re not going to have sex, then we might as well head back. We can’t hide out here forever.”
“Not hiding,” he corrected, voice rich with affection. “Strategizing. And maybe stealing a little time alone with my mate. Time where you aren’t glancing at the door like Morven’s going to crash through and ruin it.”
Shifting again, I settled against his chest. It felt strange to cuddle up to him like this since we weren’t having sex, but I needed the comfort. Wolves were touchy creatures. I’d been absent of that for so long that I hadn’t even realized how much I needed it.
How much I needed him.
“Do you really think a rogue wolf killed his witch?”
“Yasmine was powerful and with him a long time. I doubt she just strolled outside the boundary and let a wolf take her,” Troy said absently as he stroked a hand down my back.
“That doesn’t mean it’s connected to what’s going on now. Did Morven ever visit your father with a
witch?”
“No. He always came alone. I never saw any other females around my father except the ones he’d kidnapped.” I paused. “He’ll try to take Irene again.”
“For her magic? Do you think he’ll need it again?”
“It doesn’t matter. Even if her magic doesn’t return to its full potential, he’d need to take her again. He won’t be able to stand that a female got away. My father wanted females to breed with.
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Morven just wants females to hurt. He likes holding the power over them. He must hate that she
slipped through his fingers.”
“You did as well,” Troy reminded me. “He’ll try to take you too, null or not.”
“He has a plan. It obviously hinged on Bridget and Dean. Maybe we’ve already thwarted it?”
“Morven is methodical,” Troy murmured. “He has a back-up plan. I just don’t understand what the point of all this is. He can’t take in the magic. What does he need it for? What does he need a null
for? There is an end game, I just can’t see it.”
“If the Darkwyn coven are to be believed, we know one thing. It’ll end in death.” I glanced up at him. “We should ask Lunessa what her connection is to Janelle. Morven might just want to throw suspicion on the most powerful coven around, or he’s right. They did try to kill her.”
“That’ll have to wait,” Troy said as he slowly eased me up and off of him. “It’s time to go deliver the
bad news.”
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