Alpha’s Forbidden Mate
For now.
A knock rattled the door. She jumped, startled, then exhaled. “Yeah?”
Xander popped his head in. The swelling above his eye had gone down to a sickly yellow bloom, and his hair was damp, as if he’d just come in from the rain. He didn’t speak at first—just considered her from the threshold, gaze sticking to the space where she’d hidden the letter.
“Can I come in?” he asked, softer than usual.
She shrugged, and he entered. He stood beside her desk, surveying the piles of books, the faded photo of her and her father in a rowboat. A few seconds passed, comfortable in their mutual inability to make small talk.
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