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His growl echoed over the stone walls "Witch"

She laughed, the sound soft, husky

Heto rub up against his own She wanted, needed to take care of hione stubborn on her when it ca marks of strain on his face

"Just tired from the late shifts

Don’t worry about it"

She kneas far more than that, but even a hint of confrontation on the issue made him shut down, and there was a point beyond which her wolf simply refused to push It worried her on the innermost level, because their relationship could not survive if he wouldn’t share his proble able to do anything about it, make her feel useless rather than a partner

Grace had no intention of per hi to work, then she’d pet, adore, and persuade the truth from him

Submissives could be as relentlessly stubborn as any do too hard for herin her power to rid the shadows that haunted him "Vivienne told o with ed with a fine circle of yellohen he answered, and she knew the as looking out at her "If you pro with Cooper made the e hand in hand with hih the happy chaos of the fair that had set up about a half hour’s drive froht her cotton candy, and re him about her family, both the present and the past

"I still miss my mama and papa," she admitted "I feel disloyal to Milena and James for it, but I think they understand"

"Of course they do" He hugged her to his side "Just because your parents are gone doesn’t et the way they loved you and how you loved the with her hair

"I didn’t understand for a long ti back When I didI cried all night, until I made myself sick" She reached up to link her hand with the one he had on her shoulder "You understand" He’d lost his parents, too, though not in the violence that had taken her own

"Yes" A rough agreement before he stole the last of her cotton candy and teased her into a sly lit up spokes of the old-fashioned Ferris wheel "Having fun?" he asked as they slid into the gently swinging bench seat

"Yes" She snuggled into the heat of him after he pulled down the safety bar and their seat moved forward a spot

"Are you?"

"Yes, but I’ers brushed over the delicate fabric of the fitted sunshine yellow cardigan she wore buttoned up over a white tank "You’re cold"

"A little I should’ve brought a jacket"

He held her closer as they slowly reached the top of the wheel, the view dazzling Leaning down, he nuzzled a kiss above her ear "Or we could ood Possessive

Regardless of all else, Grace loved that about Cooper, loved that she didn’t have to wonder where she fit in his life When he bit down on her lower lip, she bit back His chest ruain"

The low-voiced request ave her that,his lips over her jaw and down her throat Grace was so used to his kisses that she forgot he’d never gone for her neck before It shocked her when fear overwhel her not to move, not to incite the predator who had his teeth so close to her carotid, her jugular

He heard the rapid stutter of her heart, sensed her incipient panic, because he raised his head at once "I’rowl "When and if I ever do, it’ll be because we’re playing a bedrooer in his voicebut it was also aware of the protective way he continued to hold her "Hoould you like it if an alpha ent for your throat?" she said instead of backing down

Cooper smiled, slow and wide, because there’d been no fear in those words, only feet the doravate, and annoy her as much as possible "I’d tell Hawke he wasn’t an to sweep around at full speed