Owned By The Possessive Alpha, Bounded To My Mate novel Chapter 7

DENISE

After leaving the manor, Dante called me many times and sent me many messages.

I didn't answer or read them at all. I was completely tired of getting entangled with those guys.

I went back to my apartment, took a shower, and then lay down on the bed and slept for a long time.

When I woke up again, the date on my phone screen had jumped to the 13th.

Moon Goddess. I couldn't believe I slept for so long!

Fortunately, I didn't miss the agreed time.

I quickly jumped out of bed to prepare for the meeting that evening.

Kieran Nightshade arrived at exactly seven o'clock.

Not a minute before, not a minute after—and I understood immediately that this was not coincidence but character. The black car pulled up to the curb outside my building with the quiet precision of someone who considered punctuality a form of respect, and the driver opened the door before I'd fully descended the front steps.

I had worn the dark green dress.

Kieran was already inside, seated with the particular stillness of large men who had learned not to fill every space they occupied. He was taller than I remembered from the business function where we'd first met—or perhaps it was simply that I was looking at him differently now, without the ambient noise of a room full of people and the particular distraction of Dante's hand at the small of my back, marking me in the way he marked things he considered his. Kieran had dark hair, grey eyes that were more attentive than they first appeared, and the kind of face that gave away very little unless it chose to. He was not conventionally beautiful the way Dante was—Dante's looks were arranged by nature for maximum impact, like a landscape designed to stop you in your tracks. Kieran's face was more like a room you kept noticing details in.

He looked at me when I got in with an expression that was appraising without being intrusive.

"You came," he said.

"I said I would."

"People say things."

"I do what I say." I settled into the seat and the driver closed the door behind me. "Where are we going?"

"Seren."

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