Adrian’s POVI was holding my hand out for her, waiting patiently.She was afraid of me.It was clear as day in her eyes and in her little flinch earlier. She was trying her best to hide it, to act brave, but her body doesn’t know how to lie as well as her words do.I could see her struggle to decide whether to trust me not to hurt her or not.Slowly, her hand reached for mine. I could almost see her changing her mind at the last second before our skin touched and pulling her hand back just an inch before she pushed herself and placed her palm in mine.Tingles spread out through my whole body instantly. Good kind of tingles. Her skin was soft, delicate in mine. Lennox was ecstatic at the physical contact.I tugged her forward abruptly and turned her around. She fell straight into my lap with a loud, scared gasp from her mouth. Her body tensed up and her eyes went wide as she looked at me in surprise. Our faces were so close to each other. If I move just an inch, our lips could be touc

Rhea’s POVThe tension coming off Adrian was scary. One second he’s sweet and gentle, and the next he has a glare that could drop someone dead. And it was directed at his brother of all people.I felt bad and responsible for that reaction. Even though I didn’t do anything, but I still felt that way because I was the reason.Alec maintained his relaxed posture, not the least bit affected by the scary aura coming off Adrian or the dark glare in his eyes.He raised his hands and said sarcastically “Fine, buzz killer. We’ll stay inside till you get back”He doesn’t want me to see the territory with his brother.Was it because he still thinks I’m too dangerous around his pack? Especially when he’s not around? Or was there another reason he didn’t want Alec to show me around?Adrian turns to me and I stiffen because he still had that scary look in his eyes. When he noticed my slight reaction, his face relaxed completely and he took a few, slow steps in my direction.“It’s still too early fo

Adrian’s POVI sighed in relief as we stepped out of the coffee shop where we were meeting with possible investors for a new project. We’ve been in there for four hours and it was taking everything in me not to cut it short and get back to the pack house.We were still fresh out of war, alpha Victor might have already met with other rogue packs trying to gain back his strength and could be plotting his way to take us out. I didn’t want to be away from the pack for that long in case something happens.“Away from the pack or away from our mate?” mused Lennox in my head.I groaned internally. To say Rhea didn’t cross my mind more than once during this time would be a total lie. She crossed it many, many times in the span of four hours. Too many. I found myself spacing out in the middle of our boring business conversation and going back to when she sat in my lap trustfully and allowed me to feed her myself. The way her face glowed when she tasted food or her eyes glistened when she gazed

Adrian’s POVI allowed myself to hold her by wrapping my arms around her delicately, resting one hand on her waist and the other on the side of her hip.Again, I had that intense feeling that I was now complete and whole.I looked into her eyes and saw her gazing at me with an intensity that sent shivers into my heart. Like she was trying really hard to see and read into the depth of my soul.I waited for her to say something, anything. I could see she had so much on her mind. So much to ask and say about herself. But she didn’t say a thing. And after a while, I realized that she won’t.I cut off the connection between us by shifting my eyes to the filled plate in front of us and removed my hands from her body.While still looking at the plate, I asked firmly “Which is your dominant hand?”“The left one” she answered quietly.“If you’re using both the knife and the fork to cut into something, the dominant hand will be holding the knife and the fork will be held in the other hand. Do i

Adrian’s POVHer eyes were filled with a sad emotion.I don’t know why she is refusing to fully open up to me.We were going somewhere when she started telling me how afraid she is of me and how hurt she was by my harsh words the first time we met. But somewhere along the way, she shut down on me all of a sudden.Maybe I shouldn’t have told her that she was starting to take a special place in my heart? It was still very early for that, I probably scared her off. Great, Adrian! You ruined things before they even started! I chastised myself.My wolf Lennox speaks in a hard tone “Remember when she said just now ‘I’m not going to feel anything for him or anyone else’, does that include us as well?”That stopped me short, I didn’t catch that meaning until Lennox just pointed it out to me.“Because you’re going to leave at the end of the month?” I asked her tightly.“Yes” she said in a hard tone.“Why won’t you give this a real chance? I’m trying here, why won’t you?” I ask in frustration.