Filed To Story: The Perfect Luna by Marissa Gilbert
“Kyle!” she bit her lip, not knowing how to react anymore.
“She did not want a mate and had other plans,” he informed her. “And I am madly in love with someone else. I am glad that everything happened the way it did. That was meant to be.”
“She was your mate!” Evelyn’s eyes searched his face for any signs of regret. She found none.
“You are my mate,” he smiled with his devilish smile. “My chosen mate. The one and only. If it’s not you, Lyn, then I don’t want it.”
“I will not make you happy!” she shook her head. “I am a– curse. Everyone I touch dies. My mate and my daughter–”
He knew that story. When Evelyn was much younger, she had a husband and a daughter the same age as Petra. She lost them in a fierce rogue attack. At the same time, Petra lost her mother. The little pink-haired girl who needed a mother brought the woman who needed her daughter back to life. They needed each other like air.
But Petra was a grown-up now. She was starting a life of her own, and although Evelyn initially planned to go with her to Ash’s pack, she knew that Petra didn’t need her there. Now she was alone again.
“It was many years ago, and since then, you helped a young girl to become a wonderful woman. And in the process, you helped to save the kingdom. Don’t you dare forget that!” Kyle k*issed away a new tear that rolled down her cheek, and for the first time, she looked at him. She really looked at him.
“Kyle, you need someone–” She wanted to explain why he had made a mistake and why he needed to return to Lila and ask her to give him a chance.
“I only need you,” he stopped her, brushing away another tear from her cheek with his thumb. “I know what I want, Lyn. I want the strong and smart woman I fell in love with. The only one who makes me happy. The one who made me feel complete. The one who is always ahead of me and with whom I only hope to catch up one day. I want you.”
She couldn’t find the right words for the first time in her life. Kyle was free now. He had just rejected his true mate for her. On the spot… Just like that…
This was surreal, and at the same time, it was the reality.
“I love you, Lyn,” he made her look at him. “You rejected me so many times, and here I still am. Not going anywhere. Ever. Unless–”
Lyn’s heart clenched painfully. “Unless what?”
“Unless you tell me you don’t love me,” he sighed. “Say that you really don’t want to see me anymore. Tell me I repulse you, and you’d never be with someone like me. I will respect that. I will back off. But I will still love you.”
Her lips parted.
He really meant it.
“And if I have to prove my feelings over and over then–”
Evelyn didn’t let him finish, standing on her tiptoes and claiming his lips in a surprise k*iss.
Kyle breathed out his relief into her mouth, finally letting himself wrap his hands around her, grasping her flesh. He missed her so badly.
“Tell me you accept me,” he muttered between greedy k*isses. “Tell me you want me.”
“I love you!” she confessed for the first time, and they both broke the k*iss because this was more important. Kyle rested his forehead on Lyn’s, his fingers drawing circles on her back.
“Say it again,” he begged.
“I love you, Kyle,” the woman repeated her words with confidence this time. “I love you so much it hurts sometimes. I think of you every minute of every day. And I–”
“Then choose me too.” Kyle got a little velvet box out of his pocket and opened it for her. “Be my mate, Lyn. Let me mark you. Marry me. Give me that wonderful life you were talking about. I want it so much, but only if it’s with you.”
She traced the metal band of the ring with her finger, noticing how it was shaped like maple leaves. The pale pink diamond in the middle, the exact shade of Petra’s hair colour, made her smile, and she looked back at him with adoration.
“You really do know me,” Evelyn smiled.
“You love autumn and Petra,” Kyle nodded. “I tried to–”
“And you,” she interjected, placing her palm into his so he could put that ring on her finger once and for all. “I also love you, my impossible mate.”
Petra couldn’t contain her excitement as their car drove into the Silver River Pack’s territory.
Her pack.
Her new home.
“It’s not as big as it used to be,” Ash leaned closer to her, and his lips brushed over her ear, eliciting a rash of goosebumps over her skin. “The previous Alpha lost half of the pack’s lands during his divorce. And we have been struggling with money since then, but it’s going to get better. I promise.”
Petra knew the story, and the pack looked much better than she’d expected. She loved how he admitted to all that sheepishly as if he was worried that it would change her mind about him. It wouldn’t. Not a chance.
Petra knew she loved him when they met at dawn after the Avalanche Battle. After the most brutal fight of any of their lives, the avalanche and all the digging they had to do during the night, they both rushed to keep their word and meet each other at the Northern castle.
Petra barely had time to fine some oversized men’s sweats and a t-shirt to wear, and Ash arrived in someone’s fur coat covering his n*ake*d body. They looked bizarre and felt like the oddest couple ever, but it felt so right when she threw herself into his arms, and he spun her in the air, pressing her to him as tightly as he could. Despite them staying close to each other on the battlefield, this was an important step for them as a couple. Their first promise kept. The beginning of their new life together.
“Will you be my mate and Luna?” Ash did not hesitate this time, and she giggled as she nodded at him, finally accepting her fate, her chest heaving with excitement. It was happening. It was finally happening. Everything she’d dreamed of was about to start.
They found an unlocked storage room, k*issing madly all the way there, unable to part even for a second. This was not how Petra imagined her first time to be, but to some extent, it was much better.
Imperfectly perfect.
She helped Ash out of his coat, and he pulled her shirt off in one swift move, snarling at the sight of her n*ake*d flesh before his eyes.
“Goddess, you are beautiful!” he muttered, pulling her back into his rock-hard chest and covering her lips with his. Petra had never felt a man’s hands on her. Not like that. Each Ash’s move was greedy and possessive, as if he couldn’t get enough of her, and Petra felt the need for him growing inside her too, unable to restrain herself. He was older and more experienced, and although his touches seemed desperate and a*s*sertive, driven by his desire for her, he knew exactly what he was doing because she was melting in his arms.
Ash slipped beneath the waistband of her sweats and slid his hand between her thighs for the first time, making her whimper from the new and unexpected sensation. Petra threw her head back, letting a m*oa*n she had been suppressing for so long finally escape her. The sound was met with a growl of approval from her mate, who slipped one of his fingers between her w*et folds, making sparks ripple through her body.
New Book: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel
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