All Chapters of Please Keep Your Alpha On A Leash: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

MaraThe drive back to the clinic was quieter than dinner had been. It was not an awkward silence, but rather a gentle one, the kind that settles when two people do not feel the need to fill every moment with words. Kieran drove with one hand on the wheel, his eyes focused ahead. I watched the familiar streets slide past outside the window and tried not to think too hard about how easy the night had been.That was the dangerous part. I had expected tension, awkward pauses, maybe even some strange Alpha dating ritual involving blood vows or livestock. Instead, I had laughed... again and again. When he pulled into the small lot beside the clinic, I unbuckled my seat belt and turned to him. “Thanks.”Kieran looked at me. “For what?”“The date,” I said.“You’re welcome,” he replied.I reached for the door, but his opened first. I glanced over at him.“You do not have to walk me in.”“I know,” he replied simply.Of course he did. I climbed out and he followed. The clinic was dark except f

MaraThe first wave crested before I'd even registered it building. It wasn't the familiar, manageable curl of pleasure. This was tectonic. It started at the base of my spine and detonated outward, white-hot and obliterating.My mouth opened, and the sound that came out was foreign, a high, keening thing I'd never heard myself make, that I didn't know my body could produce.The orgasm had me by the throat. Not the polite little sighs I'd taught myself to fake, not the silent tightening I managed alone. It rolled through me in waves, each one punishing, each one dragged out by the steady rhythm of his hips, and I couldn't breathe, couldn't think, couldn't do anything but sob against his shoulder.My nails raked down his back. I heard it through the fog... the sharp hiss of his breath, the way his rhythm stuttered and regained itself. My body clenched around him, again and again, and with each pulse, another aftershock burst through me, until I wasn't sure where the orgasm ended and I b

MaraThe apartment felt offensively quiet after Kieran left. I sat in bed for a full minute staring at the closed door. Then at the sheets. Then at the ceiling. Then back at the sheets."Well."That was apparently all my brain had. Well. I had gone on one date with Kieran. One. Then somehow one date had turned into dinner, laughter, a kiss at my front door, and I looked at the disaster around me."Fantastic."My clothes were scattered across the floor. His shirt had somehow ended up near the tiny kitchen. One pillow was on the ground. The blanket was half twisted around my legs. And the poppies he had brought me last night were sitting in a jar on my counter looking far too innocent considering the events they had witnessed.I covered my face. "Oh my God."The worst part? I wasn't horrified. I wasn't embarrassed. Okay. I was a little embarrassed. But mostly? I felt good. Annoyingly good. Warm. Relaxed. Happy. My body hurt in that very specific I made decisions last night kind of way,

MaraBy eleven, I had already reset one werewolf wrist, vaccinated two dogs, and removed a sock from a Labrador. Again. Not the same Labrador. Which somehow made it worse."You people need to stop leaving laundry where your dogs can reach it."The Labrador's owner looked embarrassed. "He's never done this before."I stared at the sock sitting in the stainless steel tray. "Apparently he's branching out."Tessa snorted from the doorway.I finished giving the owner discharge instructions, sent them home, and had approximately thirty seconds of peace before the front bell jingled.Tessa looked toward reception. Then back at me. Her eyebrows climbed."No.""What?""Oh, nothing."That tone meant something. I walked out front.Kieran stood near the door. My stomach immediately did that annoying little flip again. Which was becoming a problem. He looked significantly more put together than he had that morning. Shirt. Shoes. Hair no longer destroyed by sleep. Shame. I had liked the sleep versi

MaraKieran's hand tightened around mine, warm and steady even as the rest of him went tense. "He was always awake."Silas shook his head slowly. "Not like this."I looked over at Kieran and found his jaw had gone rigid, a muscle working beneath the skin.Cassian stepped forward, impatience already sharpening his voice. "You're going to need to explain that."Silas finally looked at him, then at Sabine, then at me. His gaze lingered on me a beat too long. "You're human," he said."Everyone keeps noticing."His brow furrowed. "And you are?""Mara."Something shifted in his expression then. Not recognition exactly. Understanding, settling in slow and heavy. His gaze snapped back to Kieran. "Oh."I immediately disliked that oh, the weight it seemed to carry. "What does that mean?"Silas swallowed hard. "You're her."Kieran moved slightly closer to me, close enough that I could feel the heat coming off him. "Yes."Silas closed his eyes. "Then it's already breaking."My stomach dropped str