The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 387: What Kind of Mate?

Cora

“They think they’re being subtle,” I whisper, smiling as Sinclair closes the RV’s door behind him,

the last to “disappear” from our little circle around the fire.

“I’m not complaining,” Roger murmurs, slipping an arm around my shoulder. “Are you, little

mate?”

I laugh lightly at the nickname, shaking my head at him. “It still doesn’t work, Roger,” I say, leaning closer to him, though the camping chairs make it hard to get as close as I’d like to be. “I’ve

told you before – I’m not little.”

“Sure you are,” he replies, grinning at me.

“I’m not!” I say, laughing. “Ella’s the little one,” I continue, “I’m tall – I’m not

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“You’re little to me,” he interrupts, moving his chair closer so that he can tuck his face between. my neck and my shoulder, breathing deeply in -I think savoring the way that I smell, which sends a little thrill through me. I lower my own head and breathe in Roger’s own unique scent, letting it flood my senses.

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God, does he even know how good he smells? Though he probably does his sense of smell far outstrips mine.

“What do you mean?” I ask. “Little to you?”

He lifts his head so he can look into my face, only inches from me now. “You’re little to me, Cora,” he replies, “in that you’re…I don’t know. Quite precious. The way I think of you I don’t know, I don’t want you to be insulted, but I think of you as…very small.”

“What?” I ask, confused, “why?”

“Because,” he says seriously, shrugging a little, “you’d have to be very tiny, to make a home out of my heart,” he says, tapping lightly at his chest. “As you have done.”

A broad smile stretches across my face and I laugh a little, even though I’m deeply touched at what he’s said “Really?” I ask. “That’s what you think of me?”

“Mmhmm,” he says, turning his head a little and considering me from different angles “My little mate, who I carry around all day in my heart Even when you’re not physically around I keep you in here I talk to you, send you all kinds of messages. Tell you little jokes ”

Ignin “Do I think they’re funny?”

He nods, smiling at me “Always”

I shake my head. “Then it must be a tiny imposter,” I

be telling you to get some

laughs, growling a little and grabbing my arm, tugging me closer.

he snarls

laugh, resisting and eyeing the flimsy camping chair he’s sitting in. It

alone

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pulling me closer and making me laugh.

another.”

standing up and tugging myself out of his grasp a little. “I have a better

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the camping supplies and pull out a couple of blankets. He continues to watch as I spread two out before the fire and then gesture towards them, another blanket

standing up for a moment and then sitting gracefully down in the middle of the blankets, pulling me down

him before bringing my mouth to his and kissing

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fight, and we

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man. All of him every

he does so like he’s finally home, like he’s been waiting to do this all day. And I smile, thinking that…perhaps he knows, a little bit. Even if we don’t have a mating bond that we can both feel, that we

tight around me. And we’re quiet for a little bit,

I say quietly, thinking back on Ella’s conversation we

me to ask whatever question

think I’m

little “Yeah, Cora,” he says, as if it’s a stupid question, “I think

up at him a little, to let him know that I’m serious. “Do you think I’m your..your mate mate.

raising a little. Then he grins at me and laughs.

don’t know?”

at him, confused – I hadn’t known there

about?”

says, turning his head and watching me curiously.

in the rain, outside the

start to get frustrated. “Feel what?” I

real laugh, a big one that shakes his whole frame. “Cora,” he says,

my mate. Truly. Fated,

also denied it for a

for absolute sure that day when you ran like an

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