“Two hours for the two years you spent warming my bed.” He took a step back, away from me and it felt like I was back to being that 9 year old girl begging to be trusted. “Run, Katherine, because when they find you, I won’t help you.” He looked down at the wrist watch on his hand. The same one I’d gifted him. “Your time starts now.” ~~ I couldn’t think of a time I didn’t love Alpha Malakai. When I thought I was incapable of feeling, I loved him. When I thought he’d never pay me any mind, I still loved him. When he finally reciprocated, I fell harder than anyone should’ve ever fallen, but then he broke me. More than anyone had ever. ~~ I spent the next three years hating him silently, wishing he’d never existed and it worked… until it no longer did. Until he returned to my life. “Marry me, Katherine Emberfell.”