Second Chance for the Barren Luna (Talia and Jason) novel Chapter 146

CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY SIX

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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY SIX

Talia’s POV

“Please…please forgive me,” Jason slurred as he wrapped his arms around me.

I grimaced as he reeked of liquor. I allowed him to hold me as he continued to mutter incoherently about how sorry he was. I almost felt bad for him.

“I appreciate the apology, but…”

“So, you forgive me! We’ll be mates again!” Jason said frantically.

“No, no we won’t,” I told him and then he went back into begging. He continued to beg for another ten minutes. My patience was running thin. I had come to the lounge to get a break from the noise. I hadn’t expected Jason to follow me and hug me.

Then, the roar ripped through the lounge. The walls shook from the force of the roar. I didn’t need to turn to see who it was. ” Dammit. I have the worst luck tonight,” I muttered to myself.

Startled, Jason stepped back from me as if I had burned him. We both looked at Nolan. Leslie hung limply in his arms. Jealousy began building up in me, but I pushed it down. I knew nothing was going on with Leslie and Nolan. It was just the mate bond making me feel like that.

“Nolan, this is not what it looks like,” I told him, but his full attention was on Jason.

His eyes were filled with anger. I could feel his Alpha aura rolling off him.

“Jason was just apologizing,” I said as Nolan entered the room and lowered Leslie carefully onto the couch.

I came over and kneeled next to Leslie. She was completely unconscious. “What happened?” I asked.

Nolan didn’t answer. He was on Jason as soon as I closed my mouth. Nolan caught Jason by the throat as Jason attempted to flee

the room.

“Nolan!” I shouted. “What are you doing?! Stop it!”

He didn’t respond. Jason gasped for air as Nolan tightened his grip. Jason swung at Nolan’s face before gripping Nolan’s wrist as

he tried to break free.

“Let him go!” I grabbed Nolan’s arm, attempting to pry his hand from Jason’s neck. “You’re choking him.”

The tendons in Jason’s neck strained as he struggled to breathe. Jason’s face was starting to turn blue.

“Nolan!” I exclaimed as I pulled harder at his arm. “You’re going to kill him!”

The words seemed to finally get through to him. Nolan blinked as if coming out of a daze. He released Jason with a hard shove, Jason hit the floor and coughed violently as he clutched his neck.

“Get out,” Nolan growled. “Now!”

Jason looked up, breathing hard. His eyes were wide with fear. Then, Jason pushed himself up and stumbled toward the door.

Nolan followed him to the doorway. “Stay away from her,” he warned. “Or I won’t stop next time.”

Jason didn’t argue. He quickly scurried away. Nolan closed the door again.

“What were you thinking? You could’ve killed him,” I said.

“Why didn’t you push him away?” Nolan asked with his back to me.

“What?!”

CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY SIX

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Nolan turned around and said, “You let him touch you at will. Why didn’t you stop him?”

“Because he was drunk,” I said. “He wasn’t trying to hurt me. He wanted to apologize.”

“Apologize?” Nolan scoffed. “Is that what you call what he was doing?”

“That’s what it was,” I said firmly. “You’re reading too much into it.”

“You’re naïve if you think that,” Nolan retorted. “Have you forgotten what he tried to do before or did you not care this time?”

The memory of Jason trying to force his mark on me came back. How dare he throw that back up! I took a step towards Nolan.

“Don’t talk to me like that,” I snapped.

“Or what?” Nolan growled, taking a step toward me. The space between us felt smaller. His scent filled my senses. I wanted to step back, but I couldn’t back down now.

“This is Silverfang territory. If you try to hurt me, you’ll regret it…”

Nolan didn’t flinch. “I’m not afraid of any consequences.” I felt his aura spiking. It didn’t slam into me as if he had done an Alpha command, but it was pushing against me.

“Nolan,” I said quietly, “don’t use the mate bond to force my choice.”

“Who said anything about force?”

Nolan moved closer, and I finally stepped back. My back hit the door and I realized I had nowhere to go. Nolan pressed his hand beside my head against the door. He leaned down. His face was inches from mine.

“Let me leave,” I said.

“I’m not holding you here,” Nolan responded.

My hands pressed against his chest, trying to create space, but touching him was a bad idea. The mate bond pulsed with intensity. I wanted to feel more of him. I wanted to kiss him.

“Nolan…”

He leaned forward and kissed me the next second. I attempted to push him again, but he didn’t budge. His other hand gripped the back of my neck. I gasped in surprise and Nolan took the opportunity to deepen the kiss.

I turned my face away, breaking the kiss. “Stop it,” I whispered, but it sounded weak, almost pleading for him to continue.

Nolan didn’t move back. His hand rose to my jaw, tilting my face toward his again. “Tell me you don’t want this,” he said quietly. “Tell me you don’t want me to kiss you again.”

“I am not going to play this game with you,” I whispered.

“You can lie to yourself all you want, but not to me,” Nolan said, “I can smell you, Talia. I know you liked it as much as I did.”

Before I could respond, there was a loud knock at the door.

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