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BellaMy jaw dropped as soon as I got to the ballroom, it was well decorated.“Do you like it?” Arthur murmured from beside me.I turned to look at him and my eyes softened at the edges. He had insisted on walking me into the party like every other gentleman.“I love it!”He smiled softly but it turned to a frown when he realized where we were. Most alphas came to this sort of thing to sniff for weaknesses.“Come,” Arthur grabbed my hand and led me to the far end of the room where the bar was.“What would you like?”“Strawberry and tonic.” the words left my lips before I could stop them.I expected Arthur to chide me on the girly drink I had picked but he paid me no attention.“strawberry and tonic for the lady and whiskey for me,” he ordered the bartender.We leaned against the counter and gazed out to the hall, people were murmuring and others openly stared at Arthur.If the attention bothered him, he didn't show it.The bartender soon delivered our drinks and I knocked mine back, i

Bella's POV The stars twinkled in the night sky, and despite how beautiful it looked, I found it very hard to concentrate on anything else. How could I? Especially with the handsome man just a couple of inches away from me. Even if I had tried to ignore it all night, there was no way I could continue doing so. Nothing was helping to stoke the desire that was slowly beginning to build in the pit of my stomach. If I left it unattended, I wouldn't be surprised if it burst into something more. And that was it, a tiny part of me wanted to see it burst through. I wanted to see what would happen if I let it.Arthur on the other hand, wasn't helping matters. His gaze was hypnotic and it was getting harder and harder to concentrate on anything else besides his dark eyes. Maybe if he wasn't looking too much like a snack, none of this would be happening. His eyes roamed over my body and I shivered. I wasn't sure if he had an idea of the kind of effect he had on me, but I wasn't complaining. A

Bella's POV. I pursed my lips, allowing my thoughts to roam free. I didn't want to think about it, but the more I tried not to, the more my mind wandered in that direction. I'd been thinking about it since it happened and if I was being honest, I was this close to running mad. I could feel it, but that didn't stop me. Not one bit.A small sigh slid past my lips. It was useless, I knew. Nothing was going to change, not now or anytime soon. I didn't know a lot about Arthur, but if there was one thing I was sure of, it was his stubbornness. He wasn't a man to easily budge. You literally couldn't push him or coerce him to do things he didn't want to, and a good example was this lawsuit.I'd tried everything I could do. I'd been stubborn, I'd pleaded, hell I even bought him a gift as a sort of bribe and what did he do? He rejected it. He turned down all of my ideas to get him to help me. What I didn't understand though, was why. Everyone knew he and Alpha Leo were enemies. Not enemies