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”

be a tiny imposter,”

you to

grabbing my arm, tugging me closer. “Get

he snarls

eyeing the flimsy camping chair he’s sitting in. It

form, let alone both of us. “We’ll

–

closer and making

another.”

myself out of his grasp a little. “I have

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go – watching me as I move to 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

and then sitting gracefully down in the middle of the blankets, pulling me down into his lap as he does so.

him before bringing my mouth to his and kissing him, letting myself sink into it, hoping quite desperately

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fight, and we

–

–

god, god how I love this man. All of

me back, taking deep breaths as 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,

resting my head against his chest as he keeps his arms. wrapped tight around me. And we’re quiet for a little bit, staring at the fire, just

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

says, inviting me to ask whatever question is

think

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

to look up at him a little, to let him know that I’m serious. “Do you think I’m your..your mate mate. Like…fated mate. Instead of

Then

don’t know?”

hadn’t known there was

about?”

head and watching me curiously. “That day

rain, outside the

as I start to get frustrated. “Feel what?”

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

“You’re my mate. Truly. Fated, done deal. I’ve suspected it for

denied it for a

be a human. But I knew for absolute sure that day when you ran like an idiot out

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