Page 62 of Unforgivable Fate

“For what? I didn’t do anything.”

“You did. You did everything. You came up with a plan so I wouldn’t have to fight him. You rallied the family for me. You believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself and you kept me from throwing away our life together just because I was scared.”

“Well, if you need sense knocked into you, I’ll always be here to help with that.”

He snorted, “Thank you for showing me what family truly means.”

“Thank you for helping me realize that trust isn’t a bad thing.” She grinned back at him.

“Thank you for loving me.”

“Mmm.” Nova leaned into his embrace, “I do love you, Griffin. So much. You’re easy to love.”

“You make me a better man and I can’t wait to…” He yelped when she jabbed him in the ribs with her finger, “Hey! What’s that for?”

“You were supposed to say I’m easy to love too!”

He laughed and Nova grinned. She loved that sound. Couldn’t wait to spend the rest of her life listening to it. He hauled her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, holding herself up.

She brushed her lips over his, “Say it.”

“I love you.”

“The other thing!” She insisted with a faux petulant pout and Griffin laughed again.

“Nova DeLuca, you, my fated mate, the love of my life, the other half of my soul…”

“Yes?” She pressed.

“I forgot what I was going to say.” He smirked and growled.

“Oh forget it. Just kiss me already.”

“Demanding little mate.” His voice turned husky. “Come here and give me those lips.”

She leaned down and he tilted his head up to kiss her. She sighed with contentment as the familiarity of his kiss warmed every part of her. In that moment, it didn’t matter that the full moon was rising or that they’d just escaped a fight for their life. All that mattered was that she knew without even needing a vision that she was going to spend the rest of her life loving this man and letting him love her in return.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Griffin groaned as the morning sun woke him from a peaceful dream. He cracked an eyelid and it took his brain a moment to put together his surroundings. He wasn’t at home, in bed, with Nova. He was outside, curled on the ground in a patch of green grass and he didn’t need to turn his head to know that his mate was beside him. It took another second for him to remember that last night had been the full moon and then it all clicked into place.

When the moon rose high in the sky, he and Nova had shifted together, letting their wolves take control for their one night of total freedom a month. The wolves had enjoyed themselves. They had run through the woods, playing chase and tag. They’re frolicked in the stream, splashing one another and wrestling. They had hunted a rabbit together for a while before getting bored and running off to sniff out a new scent.

Eventually they’d calmed enough to come together and the animals had mated under the full moon for the first time.

Griffin might have been stuck inside his wolf, only allowed to watch, but he’d felt the connection his animal had to Nova. He’d realized as they moved together that they were even more connected than he and Nova were themselves. They were so in sync, they communicated without needing words, and maybe that was because they were animals and couldn’t speak but also, maybe it was also because they had never fought the bond, had accepted it from the moment they scented one another. There was something special about their bond, just as unique and powerful as his own was to Nova’s human half.

When the animals had eventually tired themselves out, they’d curled up together in the grass to sleep.

With the sun up, they’d shifted back to their human selves without even realizing it. They must have been exhausted to sleep through the change. Griffin stretched and he could feel the tightness in his muscles from a night spent sleeping on the ground after being in his wolf form and he knew that Nova would be uncomfortable when she awoke too.

He smiled as he watched her sleep. She was so beautiful it took his breath away. Her skin practically glowed in the morning sun. Her locs were splayed out everywhere which he found absolutely adorable. Her body was all curves and softness and just looking at her made his cock twitch to life.

Nova didn’t open her eyes when she whined, “Stop staring at me and go back to sleep.”

He chuckled, “Can’t.”

“Can’t stop staring or can’t go back to sleep?” She peeked one eye open.

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