His Alpha Brother Is My Bedfellow
They saw a romantic proposal, not a desperate man salvaging his pride and a trapped woman accepting a cage.
Eric stood, pulling Lupiter into a possessive kiss. She kissed him back, playing her part perfectly, but over his shoulder, her eyes opened. And they were not looking at her new fiancé. They were locked on Killian. And in them burned not love, but a furious, jealous vow.
Killian ignored them both. He looked down at me, his arms still holding me. “Can you stand?” he murmured, his voice only for me.
I nodded, my body still trembling with the aftershocks of rejection and freedom. He helped me find my feet, but kept an arm firmly around my waist, letting me lean on him.