Alessia:
Contentment surprised me.
It wasn’t loud or overwhelming, no grand rush of emotion. It settled instead, soft and steady, like warmth seeping into my bones after a long winter. The kind that made your shoulders drop without you noticing.
And I knew as well as I knew my name, that I didn’t remember the last time I felt content.
Alexander moved around the suite like he belonged there, which, of course, he did, it was his place. But there was something different about the way he was doing it. Less Alpha. Less armor. More… him. More a man that wanted nothing more than to feel a certain peace, or maybe, a man who actually felt it.
We talked while breakfast cooled on the table, about nothing important, and somehow about everything. He told me about a patrol that once got lost becau
