The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 540

Chapter 540: Just A Matebond Between Friends (Bullshit)

"You know, most people buy me dinner before they wrap their legs around me a thousand feet in the air."

Serena gave him a flat look. "Most people don’t jump off volcanoes with me."

"Most people have survival instincts, Frostborne. Those are optional for you."

"You said yes before I finished the question, Gav."

"I said yes before you started the question. There’s a difference, and it’s worse."

"And yet."

"And yet here I am. I have myself to blame. But, Serena, there’s something I need to tell you."

She stiffened in his arms. "What is it?"

"Your heart rate is extremely elevated."

"I—I—we just jumped off a cliff, Gav."

"Your heart rate was elevated before we jumped."

He looked at her. She looked at him then shook her head.

"You are impossible."

He would remember this later. But it wasn’t the fall or impossible green magic that would stick with him. He would remember the way she laughed against his shoulder, and the way it made him forget, completely, that she wasn’t his.

They drifted the last hundred feet, the green light dimming as they descended, the crater floor rising to meet them with the patient inevitability of a surface that had been waiting.

Gavriel’s boots hit volcanic stone without a stumble, which was a miracle given that he was holding a woman who was straddling him and his legs had been in freefall for the better part of a minute.

He landed clean, one arm locked around her waist, the other braced beneath her, his body absorbing the impact with a steadiness that came from the same place his new speed came from: the place he hadn’t known existed until today and was choosing to examine later.

The parachute dissolved above them in a cascade of green motes that drifted down like luminescent snow.

Serena watched them fall. She couldn’t help it. The motes caught the light and fractured it into a hundred shades of emerald, swirling around them both in lazy spirals, and she stared the way she stared at every new manifestation of magic she encountered: with the wide-eyed, unguarded wonder of a woman who had studied magic and still couldn’t believe it was real when it was beautiful.

Then she realized three things in rapid succession.

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