"Please," I said like I was praying. "Don't make this the end."
Her hand slid from mine with the finality of a slammed door. Her face was unreadable as she stepped back.
I never begged anyone in my life. Not once. Not as a boy, not as an Alpha, not as a man who'd broken bones with his bare hands. But here I was, on my knees in every way that mattered, staring at the only woman who'd ever owned me, watching her slip away like water through my fingers.
"Elodie, please," I rasped, my throat burning. "I know I f****d everything up. If you forgive me, just once, we can leave tonight. We'll go home, we'll get married tomorrow. No more secrets, no more hiding what we are. Work, don't work, I don't care. Everything I have is yours. Every part of me is yours. No one else matters. Not Carmela, no
