Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games novel Chapter 178

Chapter 178

My heart might have melted a little at his thoughtfulness. “I’m really happy you get along with my family so well. The other night with everyone here was nice, though I may have been a little jealous at times. I think you fit in better with them than I did.”

He frowned. “That’s not true, they love you.”

“Oh, I know. Enough that from what I heard, they practically lived here, and yet you had no idea I even existed.” I was joking, but a part of it really did hurt.

He pulled me into his arms and kissed me, leaning his forehead against mine. “In hindsight, yes they did. I was the dense bloke who didn’t understand it. I thought ‘E‘ was a nickname for Lily, and some of the things they said never quite fit what I knew of her. I know now they were actually talking

about you, not her. Your siblings love you. I’ve never seen such closeness in a family before. If anyone’s jealous here, it’s me. I didn’t even know a family could be like yours, and it makes me envious because mine was nothing like that. Sure I’m close with my brothers in our own way, but it’s just very different.”

He sounded a little sad and I realized I really didn’t know anything about his family, or his life.

Chase had told me he didn’t have anywhere to go after Kyle had tried to banish him. Had he really given up everything? For me?

The soup was bubbling and he moved away to turn it down. “Lunch is ready. Sorry it’s not much.”

We ate in companionable silence, each of us seemingly lost in our own thoughts. I watched him dip a peanut butter cracker into his soup, and I crinkled my nose in disgust. Side by side was one thing,

but literally eating them together looked gross.

“Don’t judge me until you try it.”

“No way.”

“Come on, one bite,” he challenged as he dipped another cracker and held it out in offering. I leane in and ate it from his hands, watching his eyes dilate in surprise.

I knew I had made an awful face and I had prepared to tell him just how gross it was, but much to

my surprise, it was actually really good.

Le

“Huh?”

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“See,” he grinned in triumph. “It’s good, right?”

I shrugged. “It’s not bad, I’ll give you that much.”

He moved the plate of peanut butter crackers closer to me and even though I tried to resist them, I couldn’t. There was something about his odd combination that was quite addictive.

After lunch I remembered what I needed to ask him. “Um, Patrick?” I started awkwardly, blowing out a breath as I prepared for the ultimate walk of shame. “Can I, uh, borrow some clothes to get

home in?”

He tried to hold in his smirk. My needing him, or at least his stuff, seemed to really please him. “What’s mine is yours. Take whatever you need.”

I rose and kissed his cheek. “Thanks.”

Going through his drawers I settled on a pair of his boxer briefs that made for great shorts–I could get used to these–and a T–shirt that was easily two sizes too big, but would have to do.

“My underwear?” he asked, sounding amused.

I shrugged, “Who knew!” With my hand on the doorknob, I turned and asked, “Um, so tonight?”

“Pick you up at six?”

I nodded happily. “See you at six.”

I ran home to change quickly, thankful no one was around to see my walk of shame. Once at work, I was bombarded with questions from Kelsey as I started to fill her in

“A date, huh?” She asked.

“Yeah, Patrick’s idea.”

She walked close and took a big sniff, frowning. “What happened to ‘Operation Go Get My Mate‘ last night?”

“Didn’t happen. He said, ‘This isn’t happening when you’re so ossy–something.‘ I can’t remember what the word is he uses for drunk! I was drunk and he wasn’t going to take advantage of that. Leave it to me to find a stubborn, considerate mate who refuses to let me take advantage of him with a little liquid courage.”

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She laughed, but I cringed, remembering how obnoxious I had been and how I had announced to

nd, that I was going straight to Patrick and the girls that I was not backing down or changing my completing the bond once and for all. It had been a stupid plan, and I was grateful he hadn’t let me go through with it. He was right. I would have felt terrible about it afterwards, just given the situation and being so wasted. Books and movies always played up how romantic and perfect wedding nights were, and for shifters, that was equal to completing the mating bond. Sex usually played a big part of that, but it wasn’t a must for the actual bonding either.

The bond between shifters was solidified when, either in turn or at the same time, they bit each other, marking their mate and sealing it through the exchange of blood. It was very sacred amongst shifters. The idea of it was a little gross. I mean, I had to bite him, and then suck his blood. Not much, just a little, but still, gross. I had heard that the sharing of your mate’s blood created a sort of frenzy and a deep need from within, hence why bonding and sex seemed to go hand in hand. They said that a mated pair was never closer than in that first moment when they sealed their bond. The idea of it all both frightened and excited me.

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