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An hour was all it took. Aiden already knew that he would lay down his life for Bella, but he didn’t realise just how serious he was about that until he spent an hour in her presence.
She was truly unlike any other woman he had ever met. Her timid nature did nothing to put him off. Instead, he was intrigued by it. When he sat across from her and watched her talking to Ava, or laughing at something she had said, his heart soared every time he saw her smile, or when her gaze shifted to him and they stared at each other for a brief moment before she looked away hesitantly.
She was beautiful, and her presence was like a ray of sunshine in his life. He couldn’t get enough of her, and all he wanted to do was sit there and watch her for hours on end.
But the life of an Alpha was never
