Page 25 of Resisting Fate

He smiles down at me and kisses me lightly on the lips. “I don’t need you to do anything for me. Telling me is enough, and just having you in our home is enough.”

Our home. Wow. It’s crazy how right that feels.

I pull him into the house and enjoy watching his expression when he sees the changes I made to the living room. I had hung one of the pictures of us up in there too. He smiles softly when he sees it.

I walk him around the rest of the house. When we get to the theatre room, he sees the picture I took of us when he was sleeping.

I can’t help but get shy, but the look on his face is something I will never forget.

Tears well in his eyes, but he looks so happy. “Thank you so much, baby. I never thought you would ever give me a chance, and this is more than I could have ever hoped for.”

“I think we can do this. Us together. I’m starting to believe in us,” I tell him.

He kisses me hard and slowly backs me up against the wall.

I gasp but I don’t stop kissing him back. Suddenly, he pulls away and turns from me.

That’s when I notice the hair on his arms and his hands clenching into claws. He starts bleeding as he cuts himself with them.

“Isaac?” I ask hesitantly.

“I’ll be fine. I almost lost control for a second,” he says. When he turns around to look at me, I watch his eyes change back to normal, the hair on his arms recedes, and his claws change back into hands.

“Let’s go have supper. I put it in the oven to keep it warm,” I say, hoping that maybe not touching each other for a while will help him keep his wolf under control.

“That sounds great. I’ll be right there,” he says, giving me a strained smile.

I nod my head but hesitate for a second before walking to the kitchen.

Could his wolf be more trouble than I thought?

How is that possible?

Isaac

My wolf is getting more and more impossible to ignore. I don’t know how much longer I can go on like this.

The whole time I was gone, my wolf wanted nothing more than to run back home to our mate. Kissing her just now almost sent him over the edge as he tried to force me to claim her.

I take a couple minutes to breathe and make sure I’m in control before following my mate to the kitchen.

I don’t want anything to fuck up the progress we made.

When I looked at everything she added to the house, I was in shock. I loved everything she had done. She added a splash of colour to each room.

Her actions today give me more hope that this could work.

Maybe I could actually have the relationship with her that I had envied my pack members for having with her while growing up. Maybe I could even have more of her than that.

Before going to bed, I place an online order for a surprise for her; something I hope she’s going to like.

I spend most of the night just staring at her. I am absolutely in awe that she’s actually giving me a chance.

I just hope that I don’t fuck it up.

Chapter Nine

Hailey

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