Dump the Alpha, Mated to the King

d worn down to somet

phone again.

e-cold, absolute, infuriating silence-stretching acr

ut by now. Apologize. Beg. Som

ira h

n,' he told himself.

dy there, gnawing at th

men to send her that v

s jaw t

e that night? He had only

him from his sp

swer, a cup of tea in her hands and a sympathetic smil

ea on his desk. Her fingers brushed his shoul

ly glanced

hed it back into place. "You've been checking your phone

dn't

gh that her knee almost touched his arm. Her vo

g about what you asked the other day. About what

eyes cu

ities, really. Either she doesn't love him anymore." She paused,

ure in the r

, hackles rising. "Wh

me to wait. Most women would be grateful for a husband like you. Attentive. Powerful. Patient." She let the la

to a fist. Then his screen

posted a

the screen before his

d-and his blood

ne and stared at the

still fe

idor when one of his officers fell into st

the man had said, his face

box in the privac

ncient runes that seemed to shift when she looked too closely. At its center sat a single black obsidian sto

she had though

her wrist before the limo

photographed it against the grey velvet of the plane's seat-

nder,' she

the phone to ring in

gnore

n. She had barely set her purse down on the e

ir

low. Control

rned s

rame filling the space, his eyes b

t?" he demanded, his g

wn at the brace

ded the space between them. His wolf pressed against his skin, territoria

d who doesn't ask questions

eyes flas

using. "Is that what this is? Three years of I'm not ready, and suddenly

lau

ot a hap

g, right? You take Ivy on a romantic beach vacation, you let her post pictures of the bracelet you

outh opene

erent," he s

I'm supposed to sit quietly while you play house with a widow who can't keep her hands to hersel

ed to wa

and grabbed her wrist-t

ai

e of energy erup

and blistered. He stared at his hand, then at the bracelet, his e

hell is th

at. But she kept her face calm, smoothing do

said quietly. "A g

wed. He opened his

hone

itation flickered across his

ha

r, high and breathless and trembling w

can feel her moving. I don't kno

ntire body