The Alpha's Forbidden Auction Mate
Beside me, Mira had gone slightly pink, though she was laughing too, one hand pressed briefly over her mouth like she could somehow contain it.
I looked at Elias.
He looked back at me, entirely unrepentant, grinning like a man who had accomplished exactly what he'd set out to accomplish and had no intention of apologizing for it.
I gave him a long, flat stare, the one that usually made warriors twice his size reconsider their life choices.
It bounced off him completely. It always did.
"You're going to regret that," I said.
"Probably," he agreed cheerfully. "Worth it, though."