Page 61 of The Alpha

“Remove the Alpha’s relative. She is to be denied entrance.”

Timmohn gasped. “How dare you!”

Halden watched with immense satisfaction as each guard took one of Timmohn’s arms and escorted her from the room.

Halden gave her a tiny wave as they dragged her past, before he turned to Jaireth.

The Muiraran ruler was glaring at him.

“We were just leaving.” He began to pull Raina through the door.

“Captain…”

He stopped, let go of Raina’s hand, and re-entered the room. “Yes, Your Majesty?”

Jaireth sighed. “Thank you. I know you and your mate have been through your own ordeal.” He walked toward him. “Thank you for being here forKahtala ulnah.”

Halden cocked his head and smiled. “Let me guess.Kahtala ulnahmeans his heart?”

Jaireth smiled. “You are very astute. But then, you are part Muiraran.”

“Perhaps a third,” Halden said with pride.

Jaireth smiled again. “Rest now. We will call you and your mate when you are needed. The next part of this is up to Melvale.”

“What do you mean?” Halden asked, halfway out the door.

Jaireth sighed. “He will be elated to see his mate. But when he realizes how different this will be, I fear Melvale will panic.”

Halden laughed. “Melvale? He seems the romantic type to me.”

“He is also a perfectionist and will want everything perfect for her as he…” Jaireth sighed. “Woos her.”

Halden blew out a breath. “Then this will be interesting.”

“Indeed, Captain. Indeed.”

“Let us leave dem,” Kwaku said and headed for the door.

Halden retook Raina’s hand and led her from the room. He hoped when Pari woke up again, she had a clearer head and was able to take in the fact she was no longer in Brooklyn of the 21stcentury.

20

Melvale lay on his back and awoke to his own stretching. His left arm had a kink in it, and he rolled to his side to relieve the…

His eyes sprang open. He was in his private quarters, on his half-moon chaise lounge. And he wasn’t alone.

“Oh, stab me!” He drew up slowly, his eyes glued to the vision of loveliness asleep on his arm. “Wha—what?” His eyes raked over her from the tip of her beautiful pink hair to her cute, adorable little toes. “Ohhhhh,” he breathed. “Here you are.” He lowered his face to her hair and breathed deep. “Ahhhh.”

She smelled of happy summer days, with a hint of cotton candy and a dash of lemonade. He opened his eyes and tried to take her in but couldn’t manage it. There was so much!

He blinked as memories formed. He’d been taken, held prisoner. She was there, but it wasn’t her, not like this. No, she was different, and… and… suffice to say he couldn’t get a word in edgewise. The other side of him, the one he kept buried deep within himself had risen.

Melvale looked at his mate with eyes full of admiration and longing. Finally!

“I suppose I should thank you,” he told the Alpha side of him. “You got me through.”

He stared at the young woman, taking in the texture of her skin, the darkness of her long lashes against a creamy complexion, and the tiny differences of pink shades in her hair. Some of which was interspersed with the color of his own. So, the merging had begun. He knew when the Alpha power was present, his eyes changed to blue. Hers would be blue as well then. An Alpha’s mate always took on the color of his eyes. But then, hadn’t she already had blue eyes?

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