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I take off my coat and place it on the table.

Lucky for me my laundry is up to date.

I have fresh scrubs I can slip into after I’ve satisfied my Omega.

“I thought you had to get back to work?” Shadow raises an eyebrow at me, his gaze moving down as I start to strip out of my clothes.

“I’m entitled to my lunch break,” I inform him. “What I use that break for is completely up to you.”

Getting to his feet, he gives me a smile. “That’s what I like to hear, and this is definitely what I like to see.”

It’s been so long. Weeks pass quickly when I’m busy with work, but the lack of intimacy can only truly be felt when I get it back. It’s the realization of what I’ve been missing, feeling that desire race back through my veins, chasing the regret that my own decisions are responsible for not getting to have my mates in my bed every night.

The guilt that washes over me is heavy.

“I’m sorry I haven’t been there whenever you needed me,” I apologise, as he moves in close.

“Well, I’m not,” he murmurs. “Because I get to have you make it up to me. You don’t get to go back to work until I’m so satisfied I pass out cold.”

He kisses the mark he made on my shoulder when we first became mates.

The soft touch of his lips on that sensitive spot makes me weak with need.

I remember the night he made it, the same night we met.

“I promised I’d always keep you safe.”

He sighs softly, resting his head on my shoulder, while his right hand moves over my chest.

“You were everything I was looking for,” he confesses. “All I thought I could ever need.”

“I was also the first Alpha you ran into,” I remind him.

“Fate works in mysterious ways,” he reminds me. “It sent me into the arms of the right man, at the right time, and then you took me home and I found my second true mate waiting there. It was like a fairytale.”

“You shouldn’t have been out alone after midnight.”

“If I hadn’t been we never would have met,” he counters. “It was my destiny, and you know it.”

I really hate it when he has a point behind his dangerous behaviour.

“You could have been hurt. You need to stop sneaking out like this.”

“Never,” he says. “I met Pete the next time I did it, and now Lana. I don’t do it for no reason, Ezra. If it was completely random, I would see your point, but it’s only brought good things into my life.”

It’s not an argument I’m ever going to win, so I quit while I’m behind.

“What do I need to do to keep you in bed?”

He smiles. “I thought you’d never ask.”

Chapter Twelve

Shadow

Dragging my Alpha into a room that doesn’t have my scent all over the bedsheets feels weird, I admit, but that’s only because I’m an oversensitive Omega. It’s vaguely insulting that he’d sleep in a bed that doesn’t have my perfume soaked into the mattress.

Considering I’m about to fix that problem now, I manage not to be too visibly offended.

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