Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games novel Chapter 143

“What are you doing? Put some clothes on” she demanded.

“I’m fully dressed and ready for bed,” I growled back at her. I confdwt exarily place why I was snapping at her. It wasn’t like me, but I was so frustrated and physically comfortable foon being around her and smelling her in the shower, that I didn’t back down, nor did I Bother eyingi hude the evidence of the effect she had on me as I sprawled out on the conce

She went to the kitchen and poured herself a glass of orange juice, damming everything in her yah

“You cannot sleep on my couch with practically no clothes on. It’s not right

After facing her in the car and listening to her admit how she had calculatedly avoided me for all these months, it did not at all surprise me to find my mate stubborn as any redheaded, full Blooded Irish, but if she thought that would sway me in any way she was sorely mistaken, because I was a redheaded, full–blooded Irish and proud of it.

“This is how I sleep. Anything more and I get too warm. Deal with it.”

“Well, that’s not going to work for me.”

“Well, what do you plan to do about it?” I challenged.

To my delight, thinking I had won, I grinned as she stomped back into the bedroom, leaving her glass of juice behind. For a moment I even considered getting up to drink it, but first I would learn the hard lesson of never underestimating my mate’s sheer stubbornness.

Elise stomped back into the room in the same fashion she had left only moments earlier, carrying one of my shirts and holding it out before me. If she really thought I was just going to take it, she

would do best not to underestimate me.

“Here, put it on.”

“No.”

“Put it on, or I’ll make you put it on.”

My lips thinned as I tried to fight back the laugh threatening to explode from me, but befe e I could even respond she pounced on me like a fecking cat and I was so shocked, that bloody shirt was on

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Chapter 143

me in record time. I grabbed her by the waist and she shrieked and tried to pull away.

“I warned you.” She snorted a little, clearly holding in a laugh of her own. “I have three brothers, you know. I know how to fight and I know how to get my way.”

She stood up, but I wasn’t ready to let her go so I tightened my grip on her waist. I stared awkwardly into her eyes trying to just figure her out.

“Is this what you really want? Me covered up and out of sight?”

She sighed and for a second I didn’t think she would really answer.

“I’m not immune to you, Patrick. There’s just no reason to make this harder than it has to be, and you lying out shirtless makes it all kinds of harder.” She gave me a sad look and when she moved to

leave again, I let her go.

I’m not sure what she thought she’d accomplish from such raw honesty, but all my wolf and I heard was “hope.” She found me attractive and that made me want to prance around in all my naked glory for her. She was struggling with her choices. That meant she could be swayed. Most of all, I was affecting her and seeing as she was more than affecting me, that was a bloody good sign in my book.

Elise

I tossed and turned all night, torn between trying to forget the instances of the day and wanting to remember every second of it. A small, irrational part of me had hoped that Patrick would give up his search for me and just go home, while the logical part of my brain knew I would have been devastated if he had.

I had met Patrick O’Connell face–to–face. It was wonderful and terrifying. He was charming and flirty, but also serious and sometimes funny, and man–seeing him without his shirt on, I doubted that there ever existed a sexier man, and he was sleeping on the couch, respecting my boundaries. When I had attacked him physically, determined to cover him up for my own good, he hadn’t tried to take advantage of the situation. For a moment I thought he might, but he hadn’t.

He wasn’t anything like I expected him to be, and yet he was so much more. If I could have just given into my instincts and let nature take its course, I knew in my heart he’d make me a very happy woman for the rest of my life. So fighting nature, and fighting my destiny, had just become so much more difficult.