<b>Chapter </b><b>40 </b>


    Conrad POV


    I thought a family–style dinner would put my Moonlight more at ease. Mary is like a den mother <b>to </b>Liam and me. She was the one who noticed she wasn’t really eating, as the contents of her kitchen fridge were different in the morning. It will also give her someone else in the pack to support her helping her adjust. When I exined the whole situation to Mary she was practically buzzing with motherly energy to shower


    her with.


    I was walking her back to her room and we were just chatting but I wanted to make sure I hadn’t upset her with the surprise.


    “You OK with everything that happened over thest few days. I know it’s been delicate between us and <b>I </b>didn’t intend on confirming you were my mate in front of pack members. I know it has been tough for your with the pack and if you’re OK with it, we will be addressing it with the pack tomorrow so they have more information. I just want to make it easier“.


    “No. I get it. It’s OK“. She’s looking at the floor again.


    “And you all good with the dinner. Mary might start hunting you down if you not eating again though“. I let out a smallugh trying to get her tough but she doesn’t. Just stays looking at the floor.


    “Yeah. Just different than what I’m used to“. A small chuckle but still staring at the floor.


    “You must have had some dinners like that with your family. Your mother“.


    “Not really. I was kept hidden most of the time so I never really yed with other kids. Just mother and Arthur who tried to protect me“.


    “I thought you would have lived in the pack house with your mother and father, I mean ke when you


    were younger“.


    “It’s a bitplicated. I’ve never been told the full story but my mother is an Omega from the pack. She adopted me when my mother died. ke didn’t know I existed until I was 8 and I attacked Ivan“.


    “That’s why he put you in the dungeons“.


    “Yeah“.


    “I have to ask but happened exactly“.


    “The Blood Moon pack believed that only the strongest survived. If we didn’t survive what the Alpha family did then we were weak and expendable. The oldest Ivan took great pleasure in torturing


    ips. One day


    he threw a two–year–old in the river. I saw from the treeline and dived in to get him. When e tried to fight me I kicked his ass and showed him my Alpha eyes. He told ke who worked out what happened and put me and my mother in the dungeons“.


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    19 went to <i>by </i>to wain, the same in my die kate, I were but we to these won thes ** ze to bw room and my heart sinks as I know she is apt to save pe pen


    “Can Ie in #hold you for a w“,


    She seems to look around to see if we might go the doing something we didst. 1 us that the teas We this. She whispers, “Or<i>“</i>,


    Vie walk into her room and dhe tells me she wants to change and upes to the bathroom. for thees out, she is a vision. Her hair is down and practically flowing the is in her pajamas of a cassi top and long pants but it shows off all her curves, cleavage, and natural softness.


    She quickly jumps under the cover as 1 think the can sense my eyes running, over her and I just antwerdly stand


    “Do you <i>want </i>me under the covers with you or on top,


    “As long as nothing happens, you cane under the covers<i>“</i><i>, </i>


    1 climb in with all my clothes on and lie to face her, I put one arm under her head and pillow and I slowly stroke her hair and face with the other, I can’t help but trace my thumb over her lips.


    “I want to kiss you so much it hurts<i>“</i><i>, </i>


    She leans closer and we start kissing, Gentle at first but I can’t help but push slightly. I glide my tongue slowly into her mouth and she lets out a small moan. 1 keep going making the kiss deeper and more passionate, She reaches up and pulls my face closer to hers making me want her more. We are breathless when we eventually break apart<i>. </i>


    “Please, please kiss me like that more often. That was amazing<i>“</i><i>. </i>


    She just gizzles and tries to hide her face under the covers. I reach under and bring her back up so she is resting on my chest. And I slowly stroke her to sleep,


    The following morning I woke to find her not in the bed again, I can hear her in the bathroom. When shees back out, she’s in medical scrubs,


    “What are you wearing that for<i>“, </i>


    “I’m going back to work today. Affer the attack I took a week off and I have a list of patients today<i>“</i><i>. </i>


    “Absolutely not. You’re not leaving the pack grounds while there is a rouge threat to you” I partially yelling at her now. How could she think this was a good idea,


    “They’re not going to do anything at the clinic. It’s thergest one on this side of the country and there


    are humans everywhere. I have to work. I can’t just quit my job“,


    “You don’t have to work. I will provide everything you could ever need. Please don’t <i>go</i><i>. </i>I pull her into my arms as I’m practically begging and whimpering at his point.


    “I love being a vet and I’m really good at it. I can’t just stay here in an ivory tower, I worked hard to get where i am and I need to have my own life too“.


    I know she is right but I don’t want to let her go. I need to know she is safe at all times.


    “I have just mind–linked Connor. He ising with you“.


    “It’s a 10–hour shift“, she says with a shocked face.


    “Don’t care. Protecting you is his job for the day“.


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