The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate (Jason and Laila) by Caroline Above Story novel Chapter 203

Chapter 203

Laila’s POV

Jason was such a good kisser, passionate and demanding. She wasn’t the wilting flower of a girl she had been when they were teenagers. Now, she combed her fingers through his hair, giving as much as she’s receiving, meeting him with equal fervor.

She was lost to the kiss, her heart torn in half between the girl that she once was and the woman she was now. Yet, in this, those two halves were mended, bonding in her want of Jason across time itself.

He hummed into my mouth, seemingly as lost in this moment as I was. Any other time, this would have only pressed me further into her own lust, but right now, the noise brought me out of herself and this fantasy I had created in my mind. I remembered that they were still in my office, that Adelaide had just interrupted us, and that my heart becoming tangled with Jason again was the very last thing I could afford right now, with so many other things on the line.

I placed my hands on Jason’s chest and gently eased back, stopping us. He blinked a few times, an adorable kind of confusion crossing his face, before a growing frown and a flash of hurt removed all sweetness from the expression.

“I don’t understand,” he said.

“We can’t do this.”

“We can go somewhere else.”

“No,” I said. “I mean, we can’t do this at all.”

“We are clearly attracted to each other.”

I couldn’t deny that. Even if I wanted to, the way I had kissed him would have proved otherwise. At this moment, my body still itched to reach out for him, to hold him and kiss him again. But my will was strong, at least for right now.

“You are still bound to Brittany,” I said allow, both to clear his confusion and to help cool my overheated body that lusted after him so much. Despite how much I wanted him, I refused to allow myself to be second in anyone’s heart or life.

Not again.

Jason’s face evened out, his hurt easing away, and he nodded. “I’ll take care of it as soon as I can.”

“How soon?” I asked. He’d pushed me away before, and I wasn’t ready to make myself vulnerable just to be hurt again. I needed reassurance. I probably needed much more than that.

Jason lowered his head, averting his gaze from mine, and my heart ached in preparation for what I knew was going to be bad

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news.

“My father has a surgery coming up. His heart, it’s weak, and his wolf isn’t healing him the way that it should anymore. That happens with age, but… the surgery should help.”

“I hope it does.”

“Me, too,” he said. Hesitated. Then spoke again. “I don’t want to shock him into some kind of episode… If we can, I’d like to wait to tell him about my split from Brittany until after his surgery.”

I swallowed hard. “When is his surgery?”

“Two weeks.”

I wrapped my arms around myself and took another step back from Jason in attempt to rebuild the wall up around my heart once again. Maybe he was telling the truth. Maybe in two weeks, he would leave Brittany and they would be open to being together. Or, in two weeks, nothing would be different. Jason could stay with Brittany, and I would have to start over again.

Jason cared for his father deeply. This delay could be genuine, but given all that had happened in the past, it seemed just as likely

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