Page 84 of Possessive Alpha

“Ty? What is this?”

He leads me into the very middle of the square and says simply, “Our new house. How do you feel about living in a cabin right here, with me?”

All I can do is stare at him.

He smiles. “Jackson wants our cabin to be one of the first built, so if you’re happy with the area, and the size, building work is due to start next week.”

My mouth gapes open. “Next week!”

He nudges my mouth closed. “You know alphas. When we know what we want, we go after it. I have it on good authority that I like to make you scream, and the sooner we’re in here, the sooner everyone can get a good night’s sleep.”

I massage my brow, groaning. “Uh, you just had to remind me.”

He grips my wrist and hauls me close. “We could have a one-room cabin with a tub in front of the fireplace, a kitchenette to make our own meals for the times we don’t want to go to the house, and…”

“And?” I prompt.

I don’t know what I’m doing prompting him. He’s sold the dream to me already.

He nods at the right side of the house. “We’re not too far from the kitchen garden that Regan said you were interested in taking over.”

I wrap my arms around his hips and peer up at him. It’s all exciting. The house, being with Ty, and working on the kitchen garden. But it’s bittersweet. “It won’t be the same without my sister.”

He kisses my brow. “I know. Hardin is only a few hours away, and there’s no reason she can’t visit us and we can’t visit her. They’re Regan’s family. I’m sure they won’t mind.”

“And if Clara isn’t happy there?”

“Then maybe she could check out my old pack.” He gives me a long look, one impossible to decipher. “That’s her decision. I know you want to keep looking out for her, but she has to figure out things for herself, like where she wants to be. You can’t do that for her.”

“I know. It’s just…”

“The way things have always been?”

I nod. “It is.”

“Sometimes things have to change to get better,” he says, hugging me.

“I know.”

Clara needs to find a place where she can be happy. I have to accept that place isn’t with me.

But it’s hard.

Ty kisses my hair again. “So, sweetheart, can you see yourself living right here with an alpha who is ready to build a new life with you?”

I lean my cheek against his chest, inhaling his scent as I think of the future.

I picture a cozy one-room cabin, warm, rustic. And with Ty sitting in an armchair in front of a fire and me sitting in his lap. Maybe, in a couple of years now, with a baby to add to our new beginning.

And I smile. “I think I can.”

He pulls away to glare down at me. “You think?”

My smile widens, stretching my lips. “Maybe you could turn that think into an outright yes?”

Laughing, he gathers me in his arms and kisses me until I’m breathless.

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