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“Thanks,” I muttered and sipped.“Why would you ask that?”

“Because you two are mated,” she drawled.

“Yeah.I mean, we had sex, but I don’t know if he even wants to see me again.Why would I move in?”

“Oh, honey, did he not explain mating?”

“I mean, I think I know how to, um,mate,” I replied, and my cheeks were definitely bright red.

“I don’t mean sex, Jez.I mean the fact you have been plucked and fucked.You are not going anywhere but right here with that Wolf.”

“What?”I gasped.

That sounded insane.Also hot.Very hot.

Shit.

Did I even want that?

Yes.

I mean, a part of me did.

Okay, fine.Everypart of me did.

“Why would Emmet want someone like me around all the time, Pen?I mean, I am nothing special,” I said with just the right amount of self-deprecation.

“And once I start having visions and freaking him out, he is going to run for the hills like every other man I have ever known.”I replied, bitterness lacing my tone.

“Okay, first, I call bullshit.Seriously, Jezebel, tell that little criticizing asshole voice that says you are nothing special to go fuck itself, okay?”Penelope said, and damn, it sounded like a command.

I swallowed, eyes wide.Emmet was the only person who’d ever stood up for me like that, but I could see by the fire in Pen’s eyes and the way her skin tinted red that she meant it.

“You are beautiful, Jez.And I know for a fact Emmet thinks so.Hell, even if he didn’t, that doesn’t even matter.You were always so pretty.Even back in high school.You know, I was super jealous of your eyes,” she confessed, and I snorted a laugh.

“That’s, well, that’s dumb.But if we are confessing, I was always jealous of your tits,” I replied.

“Really?”

“Yep.”

She grinned.I chortled.Next, the two of us were doubled over laughing so loudly we didn’t even hear the door open.

“What is going on in here?”Max Leeds walked right up to Penelope, grinning as she continued to laugh and kissed her right on her smiling lips.

“Hi, Sugarplum,” he whispered.

“You two doing alright?”Emmet asked, and I tilted my head back to see him staring down at me, a curious expression on his face.

I nodded my head and tugged on his jacket, heat filled me as he bent and gave me what I wanted.

The second that man’s lips hit mine it was like nothing I ever experienced all over again.Heat filled me and that third eye I was so afraid of seemed to open up on its own, gifting me a view of Demon’s blazing green eyes as he watched me from the other side.

There was something so primal and raw in his unwavering gaze.Something so prideful and for once in my life I did not hate my gift.Not in the slightest.

When Emmet finally lifted his head, I saw the same look in his eyes, and my heart thumped heavily inside my body.

Oh, this man was doing things to me.Things I did not think were possible.He was melting the frost.Making me live.Daring me to dream again.Burning me from the inside out with the heat of his gaze.