"Merikh❞

"I don't like this," Colette says, her tongue running over her teeth as she drills me with her angry eyes.

"Are you worried about me?" I tease her and she crosses her arms over her chest.

"Of course I am! Don't pretend like you can't feel it through the bond." She growls.

She is right. I feel her fear and the way she doesn't want me to leave her side. The way she wants to just wrap her arms around me and keep me here. It's damn adorable and so fucking refreshing to know it rather than hope.

"Letty," I say in a gentle voice, stalking toward her. She rolls her eyes, trying to be mad. "Penny and Percy will both be here with you."

"You stupid fool." She sniffles. "DO you really think I care about me? It's you that I am worried about."

"Am I not the Alpha of Death?" I ask her, arching a brow, and she scoffs. Her indignation only feeding the playful side of me. "Am I not the Lycan king?"

"You are my mate above all those things." She says and her words spear me right in the chest. Her words surprising me as I blink at her, dumbfounded.

"Am I that important to you?" I ask her and her shoulders drop, her eyes going sad.

"Do you need me to say it as well as feel it for you to believe it?" She asks me and I nod emphatically.

"Every day. I need you to tell me every day."

"I love you, and I hate you." She says like the smart ass she is.

"Oh? and what is it you love about me?" I ask, walking toward her and rubbing up and down her arms as she looks up at me.

"You mean what is it I hate about you?" She rivals and I smirk.

"Oh, I know why you hate me. A little all too well. What I don't know is why you love me."

"Because of the mate bond," she says, but I feel the lie, all the while watching her lip twitch.

"Interesting." I mutter. "Do you want to see if the lie detector works for me, too?" I ask, arching a brow, and she fights back a smile.

with your best lie." She says, bracing yourself as a knock sounds in

open up." Hayes

having sex with my mate." I call out and her eyes

along her jawbone, humming in delight as

"That's not a lie."

And I will never lie to you again." I

move on. We should

and I feel the way her love trickles through to me even as she tries to hold it

to make her doubt a word I say, and I know damn well she isn't done punishing me yet. But I've

tell her as she slides out of my arms, pressing her nose to

and you promise you will come

come back. Fighting is my specialty and there is no being better than

forward, pressing a kiss to her lips before I tear away

She groans

gives me a knowing nod and I leave them behind, finding Hayes

says, reaching out for my neck. "You weren't kidding. Look

slap his hand away, pretending to be mad, but I

only wish I could

day, Hayes. I have a feeling you will find her and she will be a bigger handful than

amazing as I am?" He teases and

we break into a run as we exit

trees were blazing earlier, sniffing around and trying to find evidence or anything other than possible magic. Flames

in a nearby tree and I look up, seeing a metallic red canister. I place my hands over my eyes, shielding them from the sun as I move

He confirms, and my stomach

"Shit." I grumble.

rules out all the fire people like

like that behind unless you want it found. And you don't want evidence found

Because they don't

I exhale. "There

deeper into the forest, with Hayes

red-eyed freaks." He says. "The real

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