Chapter 352 In His Arms


    Landon held her tightly, his pine-scented pheromones wrapping around her like a drug.


    If this kept up, she was afraid she might really lose control.


    Tessa gently pushed him away.


    Landon looked down at her and asked softly, "So? Sleep well?"


    Tessa shook her head.


    "I want to sleep a little longer. If you''ve got things to do, go take care of them. Let''s have lunch togetherter, okay?"


    Landon probably hadn''t gotten much rest either.


    He''d been so focused on catching S. Once he finally did, there was no way he hadn''t spent hours interrogating him.


    And S didn''t seem like someone easy to break.


    Landon really hadn''t slept much. After the interrogation, he immediately deployed cleanup crews to raid the drug sites S had exposed, and coordinated everything else that followed.


    He hadn''t wrapped things up until just before dawn.


    "I''m done with everything. Didn''t sleep wellst night either. How about we sleep a little more together?" Without waiting for her answer, he scooped her up in his arms and headed for the bed.


    Tessa yelped in surprise as heid her down. She watched nervously as Landon climbed into bed beside


    her.


    "Rx. I won''t do anything you don''t want me to." He gave her a soft kiss, then wrapped his arms around her and closed his eyes.


    "Mr. Landon-"


    With him lying there, how was she supposed to sleep?


    "What is it?" Landon opened his eyes and tightened his hold on her.


    Just lying there with the person he loved, even doing nothing at all - it made him feelpletely at


    peace.


    "...It''s nothing. Go back to sleep."


    There was no point in saying anything now anyway.


    "Okay, let''s sleep."


    Maybe it was the exhaustion from staying up all night, but with Tessa beside him, Landon was out in minutes.


    As Montedra''s Alpha King, he''d always been vignt


    even when alone, he maintained the shallow-sleep.


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    state unique to wolves, always alert to the slightest movement within miles. But Tessa was the one exception.


    With her next to him, he could fully rx, falling into a deep, dreamless sleep - a kind of rest only a mate could give. No alpha-calming spray couldpare. Watching him sleep so defenseless at her side made Tessa''s heart beat faster.


    How was it that the two of them were lying together, yet she was the one wide awake?


    She couldn''t sleep at all.


    So she started counting his eyshes.


    How could a man look this good? It wasn''t just that he was handsome he was perfectly handsome.


    His eyshes were so long, so pretty.


    After a while, when he still didn''t stir, Tessa grew bolder.


    At first, she really was just looking - counting hisshes. But then she reached


    out and gently touched his face.


    Dream''s words came back to her - Ethan isn''t your type.


    She couldn''t help wondering... if Dream ever saw Landon, what would she say?


    As she stared at him, Tessa''s eyelids finally grew heavy - and she drifted off.


    The two of them slept like that, wrapped in each other''s arms.


    No wild passion. No lines crossed. Landon was content just holding her.


    By the time they both woke up, it was already past 1 p.m.


    They got up, met with Nathaniel, and went to lunch at one of Falindale''s high-end restaurants.


    "So," Tessa asked during a lull in conversation, "what exactly brought you to Falindale? Isn''t Navoris still keeping you busy?"


    -Nathaniel answered casually, "Just a minor thing. You''re better off not knowing."


    The matter involved a ssified Nightshade Pack purge operation - not something Tessa could be told.


    She didn''t press any further.


    Later, she found out that Landon had handed S over to Ethan the Werewolf Council''s tribunal was now involved. So it probably wasn''t anything shady.


    Just then, Tessa''s phone rang.


    When she saw Ethan''s name on the screen, she frowned. What could he want now?


    He''d already caught S - he should be busy right now.


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    Seeing her reaction, Landon asked, "Who is it?"


    "It''s nothing. I''ll take it outside."


    She stepped out with the phone.


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    Watching her go, Nathaniel raised an eyebrow. "Alpha, who called Tessa? She left just to answer it?"


    Did Tessa have secrets they weren''t supposed to know?


    Landon didn''t respond.


    Tessa did have a lot of secrets. But he didn''t want to use his authority to dig into them.


    He loved her so he wanted her to tell him those things herself, not discover them through investigation.


    Even though he suspected that the woman he foughtst night might have been Tessa, he hadn''t asked. Hadn''t checked.


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