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“Okay, Alpha,” I tease back. “I won’t ever command you to move again.”
“Good,” he says. “Because I am an Alpha, and you know we don’t listen.”
I roll my eyes as I hear him chuckling, his large back sending vibrations through the door.
Chapter 12 - Ellis
Somehow, what started off as a cold, awkward relationship—if you could even call it that—between Danielle and me has transformed into something else.
We’re not avoiding each other anymore. We’re both super busy trying to figure out how we can stop the valley from being destroyed, but when we are in the house together, we eat and talk.
We even flirt, unless that’s just in my head.
Something changed after that life-threatening experience.
I know it has to do with the kiss, which must mean she feels some sort of attraction to me, too. I’d never thought that I could ever feel this way about a witch, but she’s either got me spellbound, or she’s different.
Special.
After a council meeting this morning, a training session, and the coordination of a witch/wolf allied meet-up, I finally, for the first time in a while, have a free afternoon.
Usually, during a time like this, I’d head over to my secret spot. My brain needs some space from my duties and rattling, adrenaline-filled thoughts.
There’s a threat looming over our shoulders, potentially worse than we’ve ever experienced before.
You’d think I’d want to be alone.
But all I can think about is Danielle.
I know that she’s in one of three places: the cabin, the coven, or the library.
Make that four: sometimes the woods.
But all I have to do is scent her out a little, before I realize that she’s in our pack’s library, sorting through research and books.
I’m attuned to her scent now. I’m ashamed to admit that it makes my dick hard. Sometimes I’ll get a waft of it in the house, or while I’m in a council meeting, and all I can think about is touching her ass and her lips again.
Today, Danielle has her curls tied up in a knot above her head. Her cheeks are flushed from the warmth—no wonder, considering the amount of time she’s spent in the stuffy library looking through books. Surprise, surprise, she’s also the only person here.
She’s wearing a strapless sundress that’s crystal blue and covered in yellow daisies. Her green eyes are glowing as she sits at one of the tables, scanning the pages of a large, dusty book.
I tense. The whole library smells like her. I’m trying not to be an ass and tell myself I won’t look at her body, but my wolf has other ideas.
She lifts her head when she sees me come in, and I steal a quick glance, noticing the way her breasts fill her dress.
My wolf is hungry.
“Hey,” she says. “Come to help me research?”
“Considering how long I had that tapestry and couldn’t find shit, and how long it took you to reveal its second image, I didn’t think you’d want my help.”
She sighs, closing the large book in front of her. “Well, I’ve been researching the significance of vines in both our cultures all afternoon, and I’m even more confused than I was before.”
“Can’t you just cast a spell to extract the information that you need?”
She cocks her head. “Really?”
I raise my hands jokingly as I walk toward her. “Hey, I don’t know how this magic stuff works.”
