Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
“You will see once we get there.”
She rolls her eyes and rests her head against my chest as I stand with her in my arms. I hold her as tightly as I can with her growing belly.
“I wish every day could be like this,” she says.
“We will make it so.”
There has been so much going on at the clubhouse in the last month since our mates have started to appear. We have some of our best trackers out looking for the hunters, but they haven’t found anything, even with Reilly’s help.
There’s been a ton of discord among the others and it’s my job to sort them all out. I spend my time mediating rather than getting time to focus on my mate. Then there is Reilly.
As an older brother, I want to do something to help him, but there isn’t much I can do. Ray says the fourth sister’s name is Lee Ann, not Charlie. However, Reilly has come up empty when looking for a thirty-year-old woman named Lee Ann and his mate has yet to call for him.
The four have only communicated online. Lee Ann has never posted a picture of herself. Therefore, none of the sisters could give us many details to go on.
Taylor is the only one to ever see her in person. While the sisters do somewhat look alike, Taylor says Lee Ann has her own vibe—whatever that’s supposed to mean.
We’re lucky to get that much from the shyest of them all. She hides behind her mate most of the time. Bradan loves that. It feeds his possessive side.
Reilly has asked Bradan if he could see Lee Ann in Taylor’s thoughts, but for some reason, Bradan can’t. Not that his bond link isn’t working with his mate, Lee Ann is just a blur to him, as are some of Ray’s memories for me.
I had thought the blockage was because of Venus until Bradan said he was experiencing the same. Every time I steal some time to go check in with Mabruk, she hasn’t been home. I’m growing frustrated.
“Where did you go? You’re grinding your teeth,” Ray says as she reaches to cup the side of my face.
“It’s nothing. Come, our date awaits.”
“So you’re taking me on a date?” she says and smiles.
I curse to myself. This is why I need to steal a moment for us. My head is all over the place. I want to slow down and do something nice for her.
“Come on, my little one. No more questions.”
“Fine. I hope there’s food on this date. Knox has been more demanding these last few days.”
I laugh. “He’s a growing demigod. What do you expect?”
“We’re not taking the elevator?” she asks as I lead her to the stairs that lead up to the attic.
“No, we’re going up.”
“A date in the attic. Oh, now my interest is piqued.”
I reach to palm her ass and give it a little squeeze. “You say that as if I don’t know how to have a proper date. I’m wounded, little one,” I tease.
“Sorry?” she says, making a cute little face at me.
I can’t help but dip my head and plant a kiss on her sweet, sexy lips. This past month has been the greatest of my entire existence.
My little mate is perfect. She makes me smile and laugh. Something that was highly rare before she arrived.
“Kendrick,” she gasps as we enter the attic of the clubhouse.
I grin from ear to ear as she spins in a circle, looking around with awe in her eyes. This is better than the reaction I was expecting.
“You really listen. Thank you,” she sings.
She’s been having thoughts of wanting to go out in the sun. We haven’t allowed our mates to roam out and about the city without us. Since we have so much going on, on top of our responsibilities, there hasn’t been time for one of us to go out with them.
I don’t want her to feel like a prisoner. Guilt has been nagging at me. I’ve taken her from one gilded prison to another. I truly don’t want that for her.
Looking around, I smile as I take in what this must look like for her. The attic is flooded with sunlight I’ve created just for her. I’ve lined the floor with grass for her to take her shoes off and wiggle her toes in it as she longs to.
Thinking of her desire to do so, I walk over to her and kneel to remove her shoes from her little feet. Either of us could magic her shoes away, but I want to do this for her.
I place a hand on the back of her ankle and glide my palm up her smooth skin. She places her hands on my shoulders as I lift her foot and remove her right shoe first.
Lowering my head, I kiss her cute toes. Placing that foot back down, I then repeat the same actions with the next. Once both shoes are off, I run my hands up the backs of both legs and knead her sexy, thick ass as I look up into her eyes.