Chapter 152
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“You endured all of that to protect me?” he said quietly as his eyes were wet with unshed tears.
“To protect you, so you could save me, you silly Alpha.” I continue, “My so called father started breaking my bones at thirteen, remember? I can handle pain, love. What I can’t handle is the idea of losing you. I will endure whatever pain I must, if it means protecting my family. You and our pups are my family. So please, stop blaming yourself. This was a calculated move on my part, to save both of us.” I finish.
He moves to sit on the bed. “Goddess, Rebel, I don’t deserve you. You put yourself in harms way to protect me. You told Roxie to guard the pups. You endured so much and you are here being strong, even now. I love you so much. Promise me, no matter what, you will never do something that crazy again.”
“I can’t promise that, love. If it comes between saving myself or protecting my family, I will choose my family every time.” I say honestly. “Now, Cullen and Kaden are gone. I don’t think there is anyone else trying to mark and mate me, so there’s that.” I said jokingly.
Austin’s eyes darken, “Morgana is still out there, darling. Reid is keeping his ear to the ground at Blue Moon. We don’t know where she is though. I don’t want you leaving the pack lands unless I’m with you from now on. I can’t lose you again. I won’t lose you again.”
“Great! Then when I’m recovered, we can go shopping for the pup. Clothes, toys, furniture, the whole nine, my alpha!” I say happily.
Finally, he smiles an actual smile. It’s half loving and half laughing. “Only you would think about shopping while lying in a hospital bed.”
I grin a shameless smile. “Yup. Lacey would agree too. Oh, that reminds me, we will have to go shopping for her and her pup too! Do we know if Jane is pregnant yet?”
“Slow down, darling. I’m an Alpha, not a shopping buddy. I will dutifully stand there and hold all the bags, but I am not Lacey and Jane. They are clearly more equipped to handle your shopping to-do list.” He says laughing.
“Better workout those biceps then, Alpha. You’ll be holding a lot of bags.” I say winking at him.
“Maybe I will bench press you. Goddess knows I love my hands on you.” He says as he leans down and kisses me gently on the lips.
“Darling, I haven’t wanted to ask, because I don’t want to make you remember anything, but, did Cullen…did he
.” he asks, and I know what he’s asking. I understand how it would be hard to ask.
Very confidently and trying to hide the shivers in my spine from the memory, “Nope. He did a lot of things with that evil fucking vibrating wand, but he didn’t get to take it farther than that…that was part of the whole ‘ turning up the, piss off that bastard, dial.’ I was scared when he started hitting me with that…flogger? Anyway, he was furious with me. Like I said, it was by design.
“How exactly did you turn up his ‘dial’, as you call it?” He asked as he sipped his coffee.
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