Semua Bab Falling for my bestfriend’s Alpha brother : Bab 21 - Bab 30

MARILYN POV I woke up feeling heavy, like someone had placed a stone on my chest during the night. Maybe it was the lack of sleep. Maybe it was the emotional mess inside my head. Or maybe it was the mate bond refusing to leave me alone. Caroline insisted we go grocery shopping together. She kept saying that all night before we slept, and woke up reminding me about it all morning. Though we were short of groceries, and Aunt Agnes had a meeting at the outskirts of town, but I still felt weak from the drama of yesterday. “Fresh air will help,” she said as we stepped out of the car and walked toward the big automatic doors of the store. I didn’t say anything,I didn’t trust my voice. Everything inside me felt too fragile. Caroline kept glancing at me as we pushed a cart inside, heading for the produce section. “You’re too quiet,” she said gently. “I’m fine,” I lied. “You’re not,” she said. “And it’s okay not to be.” I ignored her and reached for apples, putting them into a bag even

MARILYN POVThe moment the car started moving, panic rushed through me like ice water.“Let me go,” I whispered, my voice shaky and small.Liam didn’t answer. Instead, he wrapped his arms tighter around me, pulling me back onto his lap like I would vanish if he didn’t hold me down.His chest was solid behind me. His heartbeat was loud and fast, like a drum fighting to stay alive.“Marilyn, calm down,” he murmured near my ear. “I’ve got you.”I pushed at his hands. “Stop touching me! Liam, let me out!”He didn’t move. He didn’t even flinch.“Rowan,” Liam said calmly, “drive.”Rowan didn’t argue this time. He swallowed hard, started the engine again, and headed toward the highway.Helena twisted in her seat to face us, her eyes full of worry. “Marilyn… I’m so sorry. He isn’t thinking straight.”“No,” I snapped through tears. “He just doesn’t care.”Liam’s chest rose sharply behind me. “Don’t say that!”“It’s true!” I cried. “If you cared, you wouldn’t force me. You wouldn’t drag me out

MARILYN POVLiam’s eyes locked onto me the moment the door opened, and something in his expression made my breath stop.It wasn’t anger,It wasn’t relief either.It was something deeper,raw, hungry, almost painful.Helena stepped between us quickly.“Liam,” she said carefully, “we need to talk.”He didn’t look at her, he didn’t blink.He just kept staring at me like the whole world had narrowed down to one point which was me on his bed.Helena reached out and touched his arm. “Liam.”Finally, he dragged his eyes away from me and looked at her.“What?” he asked, voice low.“You’re scaring her.”“I’m not doing anything,” he muttered.“Exactly,” Helena said. “You walked in, stared at her like you could swallow her whole. Liam, look at her.”He did.I instantly looked away, heart pounding. My hands were shaking in my lap. His scent was all over the room, strong and warm, crowding my senses.Helena sighed. “She’s terrified.”Liam’s jaw tightened. “I’m not harming her.”“No,” Helena agreed s

MARILYN POVI sat on the edge of Liam’s enormous bed, hugging my knees to my chest. The room was quiet,too quiet and the only sound was the soft ticking of the clock on the wall. I had expected him to come back in after I finished showering. I thought he would knock, or ask if I was okay, or at least say something through the door.But he hadn’t moved.Not once.Part of me was relieved,part of me was scared. And another small part… an annoying, soft part of me… wondered if he was hurting.Minutes passed,then more.So many that I lost count.Finally, I exhaled sharply.“Why is he taking so long?”I slid off the bed and walked to the door, resting my ear against it. Silence. Not even breathing.An uneasy feeling crawled up my spine.I cracked the door open.What I saw made my breath catch.Liam was still sitting exactly where I left him on the floor, back against the wall, head tipped forward slightly. His legs were stretched out, arms resting on his thighs.He wasn’t guarding the door.

LIAM POVThe moment she stepped into the dining hall, the air changed.I smelled her before I even saw her, warm, sweet, sharp at the edges. My wolf slammed into me so hard my breath cut off. It was like the whole room tilted. One second I was talking to Rowan and Helena, the next I was choking on her scent.Heat.Her first heat.My mate. In heat. In a room full of unmated males.I froze for a second, because the shock hit me like a punch. But the wolves around us didn’t freeze,they reacted. Every unmated male’s head snapped toward her like a pack of starved animals catching the smell of fresh meat. Their nostrils flared. Their eyes sharpened. Hunger flickered under their skin.“Alpha…” Helena whispered sharply beside me, already stepping forward. She smelled it too.My blood went cold.Then hot.My vision blurred red at the edges because she smelled too good, too tempting, too much mine for other males to even look at her.No. No. No.She walked toward us slowly, like she didn’t noti