The Brutal Alpha's Tender Daughter novel Chapter 70

I nodded my head agreeing with him and with reluctance he pulled himself up. He then extended his hand for me, but used more strength than necessary while pulling me up so I ended up crushed to his body again.

"Fuck is this hard.", Nathan exasperatedly told me and I felt myself blush.

"God I love your blush." His fingers gently caressed my heated cheeks and his eyes were fixed on my lips.

I wanted to say to hell with this, push him back onto the bed and let him have his way with me, but I knew I could not. There was too much Nathan still had to know about me.

Therefore I gathered all my strength to fight against my attraction to Nathan and hoarsely whispered, "We should get out of here."

Nathan had apparently got a grip on his emotions as well and drew himself away from me to pick up a book.

"I know the perfect place to study."

"Why does Silas call you Ray?", Nathan wanted to know after he got the first question right.

Nathan had picked Levke's garden as our study place and when he had marvelled at my full blown smile, because I loved being here, he had said, "I love that you're getting this happy over the most simple things."

Instantly my smile had vanished and before I could think about it I had told him, "It's not simple to me."

I could see the confusion in Nathan's eyes caused by my words and there was also anger. I knew that the anger was not directed at me, and while I appreciated his rage, because it made me feel adored and precious, I feared what I was about to share with Nathan would make him even more mad. His arm, which was wrapped around my waist, pushed me closer to him and I leaned my head on his shoulder. It felt so good that finally someone else as Silas, worried about me.

"Like sunrays Silas thinks I light up the room," I told Nathan hoping I could distract him. It worked, because his eyes seemed to lighten when he looked at me.

"I can definitely agree with that"

Nathan then pulled away from me and luckily there was a bench behind me, because my legs were too weak to hold me up any longer. Already exhausted I sat down on the bench and watched Nathan fighting an internal battle with himself and his wolf. I could see how badly he wanted to shift, not being able to stand my parents mistreating me all my life. Although a small part of me was relieved that Nathan thought as badly as I did about my parents, the bigger part of me was heartbroken watching Nathan like this.

"There's more.", I whispered brokenly and instantly Nathan's eyes locked with mine.

I lowered my gaze not sure how Nathan would handle my next secret and swallowed around the lump in my throat. I had to tell him, I knew I had to, but what if he could not cope with it?

I found myself gently being picked up by Nathan and placed on his lap. His arms surrounded me and an instant calm washed over me. My head was tucked under his chin and feelings of safety and comfort coursed through me.

"Whatever you're going to tell me Sophia, it won't change my feelings nor my opinion about you.", Nathan told me in a determined voice addressing my biggest fear.

Tell him my wolf seemed to push me and because I trusted her I did.