Chapter 14
The sun shone down on them, warming their skin while the sound of crashing water roared nearby. The day before had left Layla in a precariously unstable balance between her and her beast. It wasn’t a monster, but the hardened voice of the beast she’d always had. The beast had been too foolhardy during the fight and hadn’t wanted to give up control after it was all over. The beast had a moment where it stopped trusting Layla.
It wasn’t until Drake, their mate, stopped them and looked into their eyes that the beast inside her realized that both of them were necessary. The beast could not interact with Drake or Miri. It couldn’t convey love with snarls and claws. It would need Layla to tell their mate how much they loved him. It needed Layla to sing Miri to sleep at night.
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