Chapter 407 – Meet Me There

Cora

Roger’s silent for a long time, smirking at me, making me answer.

“I make no promises,” I reply after a long moment, shaking my hair back in a lofty way that makes him laugh. “But seriously, what is it?”

“Well,” Roger sighs, letting his shoulders drop and looking at me squarely now that some of the tension is gone. “Sinclair wants to give us more than a house now. He also wants to give us…a wedding.”

My jaw drops a little. “A wedding?” I ask, baffled. “But we’re…we’re wolves,” I say, wrinkling my nose. “Or at least – mostly wolf,” I say, glancing down at my belly where my little hybrid baby is growing.

“Yeah, he wants it to be a wedding and a mating ceremony at once – a symbolic uniting of the wolf and human worlds. Because I’m a wolf,” he says, pointing to himself, “and you’re a human,” he continues, pointing to me. “Or at least, sort of.”

I still shake my head, confused.

“And he wants it to be on TV,” he says, grimacing as he drops the final bomb, “like a royal wedding, for the entire world to see.”

And, just as Roger predicted, I immediately get very, very pissed off.

“This is such bullshit,” I murmur, pulling my cell phone out of my back pocket and immediately starting to text Ella to tell her precisely what I think of this plan.

“Wait,” Roger says, laughing a little and reaching for the phone, “just give it a minute -”

that I want our mating

my phone with his hand, stepping close to me, “I am on board with whatever it is you want, all right? So, let’s put the phone and the rage away for a few minutes and just talk about this.

my phone on the counter, sliding it away from me. “Okay,” I agree, nodding but looking down at

me close, resting his forehead

emotions as best I can. “Because what we have, Roger,” I continue, putting my hands on his chest, “it’s so important to me. It’s – it’s the best thing I’ve got, and so much more than

a soft, sweet noise of understanding then, drawing me

help Ella,” I say, my voice slightly muffled against his shoulder, “and like…the nation, or whatever.

arms wrapping me up even tighter, making me smile. “I understand, and

side and that I just have him at all – I let my body relax against Roger’s and breathe in his warm, rich, comforting scent, letting it

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shriek, going

going to do

staring up at him, trying to ascertain

that he’s teasing me. “No, Roger,” I growl. “I still want it to be right! I’m not going to just let you bite my

slide his fingers under my shirt to the place where my neck meets my shoulder, where he intends to mark me. “And you smell amazing right now

like dirt and field hospital,” I reply, shaking my head and stepping away. You’re just listening

he won’t shut up Roger groans, tilting his head back even as he laughs. “Seriously, Cora, it’s bite her now, do it!

a little howl of triumph. I want it too, she says, giving a wolfish little

over my chest, “says your wolf is

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