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Gold eyes flashed at him, but they didn’t look like they wanted to kill him.Leave it. I’ll clean up when she gets too hot. Then you can take over.

Are you sure?He tucked the blanket around them again, feeling weird for some reason.

Mylo sighed and pushed her closer to the edge.Just get in, you idiot.

He almost leapt at the opportunity, but Rune stopped himself just in time. This was way too fucking good to be true and he didn’t trust that psycho not to change his mind at the last minute.

Narrowing his eyes, he tried to decide if this was a good idea, or if it was some kind of trap.

Get. In.

NowMylo looked like he wanted to kill him? Rune didn’t fucking understand what was happening, but it didn’t really matter either.

He slid in behind Mylo and wrapped his arm around both of them, feeling safer already. That sharp alpha scent was fucking excruciating, but it also meant he’d been found—saved.

So much skin-to-skin contact it was making him unreasonably giddy, but at the same time…he felt exhausted – like he might actually be able to go to sleep now thanks to how their mate softened this asshole’s scent.

I still can’t scent her, but her essence changes yours. Rune sighed and rested his face against Mylo’s back.I like it. Makes me want to eat you both up.

Even if this was only for one night, he was glad he was getting it.

Go to sleep, Rune. I can’t do this for much longer, so enjoy it while you can.

“Whatever you say, Alpha.”

Chapter 23

Samuel

Samuel ignored the sounds coming from Mylo and Rune’s bedroom as much as possible but it was…difficult.

He sighed and readjusted his rock-hard cock so it was tucked up into the waistband of his pants. The shirt he wore was one of Rune’s so it covered what his pants couldn’t.

What was even worse, though, was he couldn’t stop fucking thinking about the way she’d kissed him, knowing he could have been the one getting her to make those noises if he’d given in.

It could have stayed chaste. He could have let her keep it simple with that slight brush of her lips against his, but when she’d pulled back to look at him with this overwhelming fear that he’d reject her…

His tiger hadn’t been able to stand it.

Especially after washing her hair while she’d been wearing nothing but her skin.

As a shifter, he’d never really cared about nudity or modesty. It didn’t matter to him and never had. But her? Jesus fucking Christ. He’d been on edge ever since she’d asked him to help her, and going in that bathroom had been just as bad as he’d expected.

It wasn’t just that she was breathtakingly beautiful, or that she was curvy and feminine – delicate even. No, he’d been bewitched by all her scars and strength as well as the glowing runes on her shoulder that looked jarringly familiar and yet not.

Vix had been born to torment and tease him.

The way she reached for him was so much worse than just looking at her body too. How she called himalphain that soft, raspy voice and the way he’d looked into her eyes and seen just how sad she was all the time, even when she was smiling or laughing.

Her mysterious grief had enthralled him, and his body—histiger…he’d wanted to taste the melancholy emotions on her tongue and erase them with his essence just like his scent on her skin hid the fact that she had none.

All the gods, the taste of her…

For some reason, it made him think of lightning tearing across a night sky. There was a sweetness to it as well that reminded him of rich vanilla which mixed perfectly with so many flavors.

Running his hand over his face made the silver sting his skin, but he didn’t care, not when he’d nearlyfuckedher right there on the bathroom floor.

Hearing Mylo fucking her now was almost more than he could take.

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