The Alpha Who Let His Luna Die novel · Chapter 7 of 24

Chapter 7: Rain at the Cabin

It rained all the way back to Ashfall.

By the time we reached the lake cabin, where Kellan had said we'd stay the night rather than drive in the dark, the sky was black and the road had turned to mud.

My heart was still racing from the Council.

I stood in the cabin's little kitchen with my arms wrapped around myself, shaking.

Kellan lit the stove.

He did it without speaking, turning from the matches to the logs and back.

"Say it," I said.

"Say what?"

"Whatever you're holding back."

He put down the poker.

He turned around, and in the orange light the scar on his jaw looked black.

"I wanted to put Stroud through the table," Kellan said. "I counted to a hundred. Twice."

A laugh broke out of me, thin and wet.

"I wanted to put him through the table too."

"Then we agree."

I crossed the floor.

I didn't decide to do it.

My feet just went, and I stopped in front of him close enough to feel his warmth through the damp air.

"Kellan."

His throat moved.

"I said nothing happens in that bed unless you ask."

"I know what you said."

"Elora."

"I'm asking."

"You're twenty-six and you've had a hard week."

"I'm twenty-six, and I know exactly what I want."

"I'm thirty-three," he said roughly. "And so do I."

His hands came up and framed my face, very slowly.

He looked at my mouth.

I went up on my toes and kissed him.

For half a second he didn't move.

Then he made a low sound in his chest, and he kissed me back.

His mouth was hot and hard and perfect, and he tasted of rain and woodsmoke.

I fisted both hands in his shirt and pulled him against me, as close as my belly would allow.

He laughed against my lips.

"You're a lot to hold."

"Then hold on tighter."

He swung me up, an arm under my knees and the other behind my back, and carried me to the bedroom.

He laid me on the bed, and then he stood there, looking.

"Take your shirt off," I said.

He did, one-handed, and dropped it on the floor.

He was scarred across the ribs and hard all the way down, and I wanted to put my mouth on every mark.

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