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Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 68
LeahI found Kieran in the garden again, the same bench where he'd first told me to take my time, months ago now, though it felt longer than that some days and shorter on others."You've been thinking," he said, not looking up from the herb bed he'd apparently taken up tending in his spare time, an odd, quiet habit I'd grown fond of without ever mentioning it out loud."I have an answer."That got his attention. He set down the small trowel and gave me his full focus, the same way he had the day he'd first asked, patient enough not to guess ahead of me."I want it," I said. "Luna, in front of the pack, your name attached to mine in a way nobody can quietly dismiss at a dinner table. Not because I've stopped being afraid of the word. I don't think that fear disappears just because I've decided something. But I'm tired of letting eight years with Cain define what the title means before I've had a real chance to find out what it means with you.""What changed?""A few things, honestly."
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 67
Kieran I meant everything I told her in that hall. I want to be clear about that with myself, if no one else, because what came afterward wasn't a lie so much as a delay. I didn't feel the weight of it until I was alone in the study, staring at a report I wasn't reading, running the conversation back the way I used to run back council negotiations, looking for the moment the other side had actually won something without my noticing at the time. She'd said unsettled. Not tempted. I believed her. That wasn't the part that kept catching. It was the way she'd described it. A validation she'd waited eight years for, finally arriving from the one man whose opinion had shaped her sense of her own worth long before I ever entered the picture. I could give her plenty of things. I couldn't give her that particular relief, the specific weight of the person who'd once made her feel small finally admitting he'd been wrong. Some old, ugly part of me didn't like that there was a room in her hea
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 66
LeahCain came alone this time, no guards trailing him through the gate, no Brody's hand in his to soften the visit into something easier to bear. Just him, standing in the same guest hall where I'd once held our son on my knees, looking like a man who'd rehearsed something on the drive over and lost his nerve halfway through saying it."Brody's with his tutor today," he said, before I could ask. "I came for something else.""You should have called first.""I know." He didn't move closer, which I gave him credit for, some old instinct still telling him exactly how much space I'd allow before I stopped listening entirely. "I've been seeing a counselor. Court-mandated, technically, after everything with Celeste came out in front of the council. I didn't expect it to actually change anything. It did.""I'm glad," I said, and meant it, though I kept my voice level enough that it wouldn't be mistaken for an invitation."I've spent the last month understanding exactly how much I threw away,
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 65
LeahI noticed it while cutting vegetables, of all things, three days after Seraphine's car had disappeared down the drive.The knife slipped, shallow but clean across the pad of my thumb, and I hissed and pressed a towel to it out of habit, already bracing for the sting that usually lasted the better part of an hour with a cut that size.By the time I'd finished rinsing the cutting board, the sting was gone. I peeled the towel back expecting blood and found a thin pink line instead, already closing, the kind of mark that should have needed days, not minutes.I stood at the sink for a long moment, staring at my own thumb like it belonged to someone else.It wasn't the first time. I'd noticed the pattern in pieces since the cabin, since the mountain, small things I'd let myself attribute to adrenaline or shock at the time. The cut from the ceramic shard that had closed in an afternoon instead of a week. The way the cold had never quite reached me the way it should have, even standing i
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 64
LeahI was in the training yard, watching Kael practice the knife work Dex had finally agreed to teach him, when the sound of an engine cut through the quiet, low and expensive, the kind that didn't belong to anyone on staff.Kieran straightened before the car had even cleared the front drive, some old reflex answering a sound I hadn't learned to read yet."Who is it?" I asked."Seraphine," he said, and something in his voice, easy and unguarded in a way I rarely heard him use for council business, made me look up from the blade Kael was still holding wrong.A silver sports car pulled up outside the main entrance a minute later, and the woman who stepped out of it moved like she already knew every eye in the yard would find her before the door had finished swinging shut behind her. Dark hair loose over one shoulder. Sunglasses pushed up, a laugh already started before she'd said anything worth laughing at, aimed at Kieran the moment she saw him."You've gotten taller," she said, cross
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 63
Kieran I woke before she did, which wasn't unusual, except that for once I didn't reach for my phone or start running through the day's obligations before my eyes were fully open. I just watched her sleep, her hand loose against the pillow where mine had been an hour earlier, and let myself feel something I didn't have a lot of practice naming. She stirred eventually, found me watching, and didn't look away or make a joke to cover it, which told me how far we'd actually come. "You look like you're bracing for bad news," she said, voice still thick with sleep. "I'm not." "You've got the face you make in council meetings. The one where you're deciding how much of the truth to give someone." I hadn't realized I had a face for that until she said it, which meant she'd been paying closer attention to me than I'd been paying to myself. "My mother left when I was six," I said. It came out plainer than I meant it to, no lead-up, no careful framing, just the fact sitting between us in t
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Bad Memories
I had just zipped up my bag when the bedroom door swung open. I didn't need to turn around to know who it was — that perfume always clung to her. It dragged up every bad memory I'd buried during my years as her daughter-in-law. Every bit of suffering in this house started with Lady Margaret. "W
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Damaged
"I lost our pups." "Mm." His thumb kept moving across the screen. "Anyway, Brody hasn't eaten yet. Make him breakfast. Simple is fine." I didn't respond. I was too stunned to respond. What Cain was doing was cruel beyond anything I had words for. After everything I had given up, after walking
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Way Too Hot
His thumb traced along my jaw like he had every right to touch me. The heat coming off his skin was insane — way too hot, like this bastard was straight-up branding me with molten iron. That Lycan energy prickled across my nerves, making my pulse stutter while something between my thighs tightened
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Nothing Come Free
LEAH "Who sent you?" I asked low and sharp. "The one responsible for your father's death." That stopped me cold. My father, died eleven years ago in a lycan brutal attack. He was just a man who doing his job, trying to protect a warehouse full of food and medicine supplies, and those fucking mo
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