Take Me Once, I'll Bleed You Twice novel Chapter 236

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Take Me Once, I’ll Bleed You Twice

Chapter 236

COOPER

Avery’s words had struck Cooper like a truck barreling full tilt down the highway. They hadn’t been spoken in anger or malice, but in defeat Contrary to

how she’d appeared on the outside, the she-wolf had been hurting, had been fearful of his response to the bond.

What she hadn’t known – couldn’t have known – was that Cooper had never once thought of rejecting his mate. His plan from the start was to walk away

and ignore the bond’s existence. Was it even possible? He didn’t know but was damn set on giving it his best try. Or had been, until that metaphorical truck

had run him over.

How hadn’t he realized that this wasn’t about just himself? That Avery had her own thoughts, her own feelings? That maybe… she actually cared.

The hurt he saw in her as she gave him permission to break her heart, to take his time doing it, made him feel like a fool – the worst person alive He was

such a selfish ass.

Holding Avery in his arms like this, breathing in her intoxicating scent, left Cooper feeling out of sorts in more ways than one. She smelled like nostaiga. If

he closed his eyes, he could picture his childhood home, could remember rough housing on the sofa with his brother or playing with his action figures an

the floor in his room.

Avery was his home and part of him hated her for it because that meant she would- no, that she could hurt him. She wasn’t like.. She was a completely

different person from… He couldn’t even bring himself to think the name of his first mate; the one who’d rejected him.

The one who’d ruined his life.

“I don’t want to be hurt,” Cooper heard himself mumble into the back of Avery’s neck.

From the moment his arms had wrapped themselves around the she-wolf she’d stiffened as if she were waiting for something bad to happen to words

she began to relax. Slowly incrementally – allowing him to mold their bodies together.

“Neither do I,” she finally said, voice low. Neither seemed to care they were standing in the middle of the sidewalk as traffic and people passed

this moment the world had faded to nothing, leaving the two standing together in their own little bubble.

Cooper tightened his hold on his mate again, afraid to let go. The change in his actions, in his thoughts, might have been teased to the

system, but he wasn’t inebriated enough to be doing something he didn’t already want. And what he did want had always wanted

who wouldn’t tear his heart to shreds without a second thought.

“I want you to come home with me,” he said after a minute of them standing together, Avery’s back flush against ha chies

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