When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 75

10:33 Thu, May 14

Chapter 75

“Hmm… and?”

“That means you’re not paying attention.” Emris steals a grape from my hand and I slap at his fingers.

“I am. Go get yours.”

“W–what?” He laughs, pointing at the screen. “So who’s that?”

“Um, the Alpha.” Duh.

“That’s the vampire rogue, smarty.”

face Mid–explanation, the Alpha lunges onscreen with claws out to shred the rogue. Suddenly, the vamp yanks his heart straight to its chest in a blur of gore: blood sprays, ribs crack wetly and I shriek, burying my in Emris’s chest! When I peek up, Emris is watching me intently and his gaze darkens as if he’s being contemplative… then he mouths, Fuck it, and kisses me.

His mouth crashes heavy but beautifully. I suck his bottom lip between mine, taste whatever he was drinking earlier, something sweet and dark, and then his tongue fills my mouth and I moan-

Hands on his face, I yank the robe loose from his waist-

All of a sudden, Emris stops just when I’m lost in it!

“I want more… than this.” I squint up at him…confused. My hand is still flat against his sculpted abs and he’s above me, using his own strength to hold himself there, not letting his weight crush me.

“I want more than this, Demetra. I love our sex…trust me but I want everything else.” His eyes search mine. “A real

in space your life.”

“Are you…” My chest gets hot. In the past, this is what we were about. To me, he was my greatest mate. To him, I was his bed mate. If I ever thought there would be a time where Emris would want more than that, I would say it’s a lie. But this is that time.

“Are you saying you want to be my boyfriend?”

“Yes. Your boyfriend. Your destined mate. I want to fix and correct everything….you should’ve been my Luna, mother of our pups. But I am willing to start over. So… boyfriend, I believe.”

“Our packs hate each other.” I counter, shifting under him.

“It doesn’t matter-”

“My brother hates you. You hate my brother. Your mom despised me since I was born. Everyone in our families loathe each other.”

“Only matters what you think.” His breath fans hot over me so my heart turns to mush.

“That’s not true.” I push myself up, forcing him to move off me. I sit on the edge of his bed and refuse to look at him. Will his mom even like Amira? Absolutely not.

“My pack knows you’re my mate. I announced it—”

I turn my neck very fast.

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“Why the hell would you do that!?”

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“Because you are mine.” Emris growls, and the sound rumbles through the cabin. “Because I’m set on winning your heart. And I like to think that you are falling in love with me again.” His eyes pin me in place. “Am I… wrong?”

I don’t answer. Because I don’t want to lie. And I don’t want to admit the many lies I already have.

So instead, I throw out an obstacle. Something he can’t answer. Something that will make him stop talking about this.

“How crazy is it you think you can change everyone’s minds? Your mom wouldn’t like me with a gun to her head. Me as your Luna… ever thought what that does to my daughter?”

“It will make her mine.”

My heart starts skipping. Really, really bad.

“Wait… what?”

“We can just say she’s mine.” Emris licks his lips. Barely. “The dates make sense. We can lie that she’s my real daughter. Her father is dead, so really…what’s the obstacle?” He tilts his head. “Throw me another one.”

“I-” I shake my head, scrambling. “Slade hates you for what happened between us in… in the past.” My breath is shallow now. “And what do you mean lie to everyone that Amira is your daughter? That’s insane.” “I’ve always wanted a daughter so it’s not insane. And if you don’t want Amira to be mine…then let’s make a kid now. So we can have a better, legit reason to be together.”

I inhale and do a thousand blinks. I get ready to glare at him but Emris looks serious.

“W… what?” I scooch back on the bed. “You’re not being serious right now!”

That dark look in his eyes says otherwise. He’s not kidding. Not at any point in time.

Someone screams in the movie and it makes me jump. I turn to look at the screen for just one second-

When I look back, Emris has taken off his robe.

He stands in front of me like a freaking titan…just in his underwear. His chest is all hard lines and his shoulders are bucked and I-

There’s something scary about him saying he wants to make a baby with me. It makes me think he’s going to take me in a way he hasn’t before. Like this time, it won’t just be heat and hunger. It’ll mean something. And that terrifies me more than any anger ever did.

“Of course I’m a gentleman…” He tosses his robe somewhere on the couch, not even looking where it lands. “So I’m officially asking, Demetra…”

“To be my boyfriend?” I ask again, but this time my voice comes out low. Between the flex of his biceps, the way his body looks in those boxers, and how he’s staring at me… the answer is yes.

What more can I do to show you I’m serious? Don’t get me wrong, I wanna fuck you… every damn second. But I want to know you’re not entertaining any other Alpha or males. I want to be the only one

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pleasing you. And I want a title with it.” His jaw feathers, clenching and unclenching like he’s run marathons fetching the moon just to please me.

My heart tugs…asking me to reward him.

It’s a bond thing.

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My wolf wants it too. She’s been quiet lately, cautious after everything he put us through. But right now? She’s pacing and pushing. She wants to claim him just as much as he wants to claim us. The mate bond isn’t something you can reason with. It’s instinct. It’s the deepest part of me recognizing that this male…this infuriating, reckless, beautiful male is mine.

“Then I’ll be your girlfriend.”

I say it with ease and his eyes light up into a gorgeous smile…to something dangerous and then he’s coming closer. And closer. Until there’s no space left between us.

“On your knees.”

This time, my eyes are the ones brightening.

“Now, Demi.”

Emris‘ hand finds the knot of my robe. His lips move across my cheek, the hinge of my jaw, the corner of my gasping mouth. All the while, his voice whispers sweet filth like “My perfect mate… mine,”

He puts one hand into the robe and cups my breasts possessively. Emris‘ fingers spread wide to take as much of me as he can, squeezing and releasing, squeezing and releasing-

With a growl, Emris pushes me down and with one arm sweeps a pillow under me, making me catch myself on my forearms, my face pressed into the pillows. I am on my knees, ass lifted and my body already trembling.

He doesn’t give me a second to adjust. He grabs the robe at my shoulders and yanks it down my back so now I am bare but for the thin scrap of underwear, utterly exposed, presented on all fours, open, his.

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