Dreamt My Alpha Mate
before clamping her mouth shut hard enough to hurt.
"Jack?” I supplied. “Jack,” she said quickly, eyes bright with a lie. “From the mill. About bread. Which he knows about.” I let it pass. Not forgiveness. Not yet.
But she was here with honey and bad jokes and a pastry I would probably pay for later. The market thinned as we took the long way home. Somewhere a bell rang; somewhere else, hammers began to sing.
Back at home, I practiced a tone and drifted into a dream. My dreams come heavy, thick, but not the same as before. This time, the bleed feels real. The air is thick with ash, my skin hot, my veins thrumming with power I don’t understand.
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