Serena:
I woke in Alexander’s bed and wanted the floor to open beneath me.
Not because anything had happened, it was the exact opposite, nothing truly happened, and yet I had spent the night beside him after letting him kiss me, carry me to the bed, lie over me, and bring my body so close to forgetting every sensible thing I’d ever believed.
He had stopped the moment he saw fear in my eyes. That restraint bothered me more than the rest of it, because I knew that as an Alpha, he shouldn’t have stopped, he could have kept going… he wasn’t like my human previous owners, I couldn’t just end him in a blink…
I lay very still and let the pieces of the night come back in fragments: his hands, the press of his mouth against my neck, the weight of him above me, the way his voice had softened wh
