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I laughed, taken aback by his handsome face featuring a huge grin and a twinkle in his eyes.
“What does that mean?”
“It means, love, that I’m very much Irish, and that means I am very, very stubborn and can be as patient as you need me to be for as long as needed, but understand this, I have no intentions of going anywhere. I gave up everything in my life for you. You are mine, Elise Westin. Only mine.”
I sucked in a deep breath, unwilling to address the reality of what his words were doing to me. To my body. To my heart. To my soul. So much truth in them it scared me.
When the GPS on my phone started talking, alerting me to my exit, I looked at the clock and realized nearly four hours had passed already. I had survived four whole hours with Patrick O’Connell. I had been brave and spoken up, admitting my intentions–or lack thereof–regarding our mating status, and I hadn’t caved once. I was strong enough to do this. I just had to hold on to my convictions and remember why it was so important, because having him here like this was better than risking losing him forever.
Patrick
As she started to pull off the exit, it began to snow. Big, white, fluffy flakes were coming down fast and hard by the time she pulled up to the resort. It looked very fancy and I doubted the one nice outfit I had thrown in “just in case” would cut it here for a week. I had never been in such a nice place, but as Elise got out of the car, stretched in a way that made my body ache for her, and tossed the keys to the valet, she looked perfectly comfortable and at home in this new environment.
I moved to quickly grab the bags from the trunk, but she told me to leave them as I watched a young man in a weird uniform begin retrieving them and placing them on a rolling cart.
It wasn’t that I was uncultured or anything, though I dared believe the majority of wolf shifters were. I was well traveled, well educated, but this place was a whole new dimension out of my norm,
and from the looks of it, Elise Westin was completely in her element.
She walked tall and graceful, carrying herself like royalty. People stopped and smiled as she passed by. She gave off an air of authority that, if I were being honest, intimidated the bloody hell out of re
“May I help you?” the lady behind the counter asked.
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“Elise Westin, checking in.”
“Yes, Miss Westin, we’ve been expecting you.”
She eyeballed me beside her and I couldn’t help myself. I stepped forward and wrapped my arm around Elise’s waist. I felt her body tighten, but she did not jump or pull away from my touch. I had to force my body to calm down, lest the desire I was feeling from the touch of my mate, would become embarrassingly obvious.
“The reservation was made for one. Has there been a change in plans?”
“Yes,” I said quickly, giving the lady my best smile. “I was able to fly in and surprise her for
Christmas, so she didn’t know I’d be coming. Right, love?”
I saw Elise’s jaw drop in shock and knew the protest was about to start, but with a stroke of good fortune, the lady checking us in began to babble.
“Oh, thank God! There’s a terrible storm rolling in and we are booked solid. I would have hated to
turn you out.”
Well, if that was what they called the luck of the Irish, I’d take it!
“And it looks as if you have a massage booked for ten o’clock tomorrow morning. Would you like me
to change that to a couple’s massage?”
“You know, that would be fantastic.” I knew I was laying on the charm and I knew it was irritating my mate. I loved it. I think the hell she put me through warranted a little fun with her.
I kept my arm around her as we walked to the elevator. As soon as the doors closed, she turned on
- me.
“What are you doing? You can’t just stay with me, it’s a king room. As in one bed only!”
She was cute when she was flustered.
“Relax. I can sleep on the floor,” I chuckled. “That is if you really want me to?” When she glared at me, I winked at her and enjoyed the blush it caused. Then she smirked and something told me to
beware of that look.
“Patrick,” she said sweetly, “have you ever had a professional massage?”
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“No, love, I haven’t, but I have no doubt I’ll enjoy it immensely with you there”
Uh–oh, there went that look again.
“You do realize we’ll be in the same room, but not within reach of each other, and naked, while you watch someone else rub his hands all over me.” She gave that sweet smirk again and despite knowing she was goading me, I couldn’t stop the growl that erupted from me. She looked at me, like, yeah, understand what you did, stupid?
“Gonna have to control that, wolfy.”
