Page 34 of My Three Hometown Alphas

“Angel,” he says softly. “What’s going on?”

“You’re back,” I breathe out. The emotion from the last several hours threatens to boil over.

Okay… maybe it already is.

He lets out a deep breath. “Look at me.” When I don’t move, he continues, “Angel, please, let me see those gorgeous hazel eyes.”

Lifting my head from his shoulder, I stare into his eyes. There’s a softness in his gaze that tears my heart wide open. One of his hands moves from my thigh to wipe tears from my cheeks I didn’t even know were there.

When did I start crying?

“I… I didn’t know if you were okay or if you were going to come back,” I stammer as a few more tears fall down my cheeks.

He wipes each of them away. “I told you I was going to be okay.”

I shrug because I know he said that. I just couldn’t get my heart and my logical brain to function in unison tonight. My heart was fully in the driver’s seat.

“Are you sure you aren’t hurt?” I ask. My eyes roam over him, even if I can’t see very well with how dark it is out here.

“Baby, I’m fine. I promise,” he says, stroking the side of my face.

I nod, my heart feeling like it’s going to explode out of my chest. The look in his eyes is like a reflection of my own emotions.

I can’t take it anymore. Closing the small distance between us, I press my lips to his.

This kiss is different from the one in the garage. It’s filled with the same level of tenderness and passion, but this is different because I don’t plan on stopping.

This isn’t just one kiss for me. It can’t be. Even if it’s just for this short chapter of my life, I need more of him.More of us.

He groans into the kiss. Somehow, he manages to keep kissing me as he walks us back toward my place. The door swings open behind me, but all I can focus on is his tongue sliding against mine in a sensual caress.

He laughs when I refuse to detangle myself from him when he lays me down on my bed. “I need to at least take my boots off.” He presses kisses all over my face. “I’ll be fast. I promise.”

Reluctantly, I let my arms and legs fall to the mattress. He steps back, quickly kicking off his boots and pants.

Then, he’s crawling back over me. His long fingers slide through my hair that’s fanning all around me across the pillow. He tenderly cups my face.

“I’m sorry I worried you, angel.”

I feel the twinge of more oncoming tears, but I do my best to push it away. I don’t want to cry right now. All I want is to be here in this moment with this man.

“I’m just glad you’re okay.”

My hand slides around his neck, pulling him back down to me because I’m pretty sure I’m going to cease to exist if I can’t have him right now.

The consequences can all be damned because the feel of him on top of me is just too perfect.Fuck it all.

He lets out a rough growl as he kisses down my neck and shoulder. He leans back, so he’s kneeling between my spread thighs. His eyes roam over every inch of me.

“You sure?” he asks simply.

“I can’t fight this anymore,” I say, relaxing back into the pillows a little more.

Fighting this attraction is more exhausting than the run Miles forced me into.Miles.

Miles’s handsome face flashes through my mind. A pang of apprehension hits me because I’m most definitely attracted to him, as well.

It’s a different connection than what I have with Owen, and it makes a different part of me come alive.