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he knew he wasn’t going to be able to negotiate with her, so even though the protective side of him who didn’t want his mate to get wet and catch cold didn’t like the idea, he agreed.
“Fine, but only because we can’t keep our original plans. I’m glad I have you for another week after tomorrow though,” he said. “We can even take a mini honeymoon if you want.”
She stood and he cleared the plates into a pile and set the tray outside the door for pickup. “Um, wouldn’t we have to be married first?”
“Not in our world. Once we mate, we’ll essentially be married.”
“Oh,” she said. “Right. It’s all so new to me.”
“I know,” he said. “But you can trust me. I won’t lead you astray.”
“Good thing too,” she said. “I’d be in trouble if you did.”
They walked together out to the deck, and he listened to the muffled plops of raindrops on sand. The damp feel of the sand between his toes as they stepped out onto the beach unnerved him. He much preferred sunny days.
But his mate’s face was rapturous as she turned up her face to catch raindrops on her cheeks, lips and eyelashes. And he wanted to lick them all off. But he found himself caught by her beauty, and by the sheer luck of her being his, and him being instinctive enough to know from the moment he found her.
And her being willing to trust him enough to follow him into this new world. The alpha in him liked that.
He took her hand and they walked along the sand. She was quiet, pensive, stopping here and there to look out at the ocean, which was grayer, storm-tossed. The sand got cooler under their feet, and the sun was getting lower in the sky.
He shuddered, thinking of what would happen if she hadn’t agreed to be his mate. She would have left after two weeks, thinking it all a fling. He’d had no choice but to tell her things she may not have been ready to hear. How would he have known his mate wouldn’t have known she was a bear.
But fate worked in mysterious ways. And as he held her hand and looked out at the stormy ocean and the beautiful sunset in the distance, and felt cool rain over his shoulders, he thought maybe stormy days weren’t so bad.
If she was around.
And it’d be fun to have a dive partner, if she did end up wanting to go into business with him. If not, he was sure Gus would have work for her at the shop or hotel with administrative work.
But he’d seen her sheer glee on her first dive, and had known right then that she could love diving as much as he did.
And the human in him had fallen in love with her right there. They walked a little further and she told him about her adoptive parents, who still lived in New York. He guessed he’d have to visit them soon, but it’d be hard to explain their whirlwind romance now that he knew they weren’t shifters.
If they were shifters, they would have explained it to her. Not left her ignorant and unsure of who she was.
But he liked that there was so much to her beyond the shifting. She was a fully formed woman. Had gone to college, and worked her way up in her office. Had a full life, and now could have more with him.
They were nearly back to the hotel suite when he heard a distant ringing. He felt her visibly tense, just from the feel of her hand against his.
“You don’t have to answer that anymore.”
“I know,” she said. “I don’t want to even look at it. But it could be my mom.”
“Let me pick it up and look at it then.”
“Okay,” she said, biting a nail as she let him walk ahead of her into the suite.
He frowned at her nervousness. He just wanted this to be over once and for all, and their new life together to start. He picked up the phone and looked at the name.
“It’s someone named Ignus.”
He could tell from her face that that was the wrong name.
8
H e was so unbelievably handsome . Such a complete fantasy come to life, that just hearing Ignus’ name fall from his lips was unbearably painful.
Ignus, a name that
“Fine, but only because we can’t keep our original plans. I’m glad I have you for another week after tomorrow though,” he said. “We can even take a mini honeymoon if you want.”
She stood and he cleared the plates into a pile and set the tray outside the door for pickup. “Um, wouldn’t we have to be married first?”
“Not in our world. Once we mate, we’ll essentially be married.”
“Oh,” she said. “Right. It’s all so new to me.”
“I know,” he said. “But you can trust me. I won’t lead you astray.”
“Good thing too,” she said. “I’d be in trouble if you did.”
They walked together out to the deck, and he listened to the muffled plops of raindrops on sand. The damp feel of the sand between his toes as they stepped out onto the beach unnerved him. He much preferred sunny days.
But his mate’s face was rapturous as she turned up her face to catch raindrops on her cheeks, lips and eyelashes. And he wanted to lick them all off. But he found himself caught by her beauty, and by the sheer luck of her being his, and him being instinctive enough to know from the moment he found her.
And her being willing to trust him enough to follow him into this new world. The alpha in him liked that.
He took her hand and they walked along the sand. She was quiet, pensive, stopping here and there to look out at the ocean, which was grayer, storm-tossed. The sand got cooler under their feet, and the sun was getting lower in the sky.
He shuddered, thinking of what would happen if she hadn’t agreed to be his mate. She would have left after two weeks, thinking it all a fling. He’d had no choice but to tell her things she may not have been ready to hear. How would he have known his mate wouldn’t have known she was a bear.
But fate worked in mysterious ways. And as he held her hand and looked out at the stormy ocean and the beautiful sunset in the distance, and felt cool rain over his shoulders, he thought maybe stormy days weren’t so bad.
If she was around.
And it’d be fun to have a dive partner, if she did end up wanting to go into business with him. If not, he was sure Gus would have work for her at the shop or hotel with administrative work.
But he’d seen her sheer glee on her first dive, and had known right then that she could love diving as much as he did.
And the human in him had fallen in love with her right there. They walked a little further and she told him about her adoptive parents, who still lived in New York. He guessed he’d have to visit them soon, but it’d be hard to explain their whirlwind romance now that he knew they weren’t shifters.
If they were shifters, they would have explained it to her. Not left her ignorant and unsure of who she was.
But he liked that there was so much to her beyond the shifting. She was a fully formed woman. Had gone to college, and worked her way up in her office. Had a full life, and now could have more with him.
They were nearly back to the hotel suite when he heard a distant ringing. He felt her visibly tense, just from the feel of her hand against his.
“You don’t have to answer that anymore.”
“I know,” she said. “I don’t want to even look at it. But it could be my mom.”
“Let me pick it up and look at it then.”
“Okay,” she said, biting a nail as she let him walk ahead of her into the suite.
He frowned at her nervousness. He just wanted this to be over once and for all, and their new life together to start. He picked up the phone and looked at the name.
“It’s someone named Ignus.”
He could tell from her face that that was the wrong name.
8
H e was so unbelievably handsome . Such a complete fantasy come to life, that just hearing Ignus’ name fall from his lips was unbearably painful.
Ignus, a name that
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