Page 100 of Cost of Courting

“Hey, Bailey, where are you?” Edric asks.

I whimper.

“Bailey!” my alpha growls. “Where are you?”

“I’m so close,” I sob, “don’t stop.”

“Damn it!” Edric growls. “Don’t you dare stop, Bailey.”

Bailey leers at me. “You heard your alpha. You’re not leaving this table until you’re satisfied.”

I toss my head from side-to-side, but he just presses at exactly the right spot.

I’m suddenly wrapped around him, my whole body squeezing tightly, almost painfully. I grit my teeth and hold the scream in. While he eases back, holding me in his arms as I float back down to Earth.

“That was perfect. You can get off the table now,” Bailey snorts a laugh and bites his lip.

“Come home soon, kids, we’ll show you how to really play,” Kingston purrs into the phone and hangs up.

Bailey kisses me tenderly and rubs our noses together. “You are beautiful.”

My heart is still trying to slow to normal when Mael calls his name. He kisses me hard and quick.

“I’ll be back.”

Everything is so different, and while there are times like now when I wonder if I will wake up and find that it’s gone, I’m getting used to this happiness.

I lay back on the table, staring at the canopy. The world is more colourful now. It’s more alive. There is excitement and hope, and I hadn’t realised how much that was missing from my life before.

My phone rings, and I reach over and answer it a moment before I realise it’s not mine.

“Hello?” The woman’s voice is sharp and amused. “About time you answered me, Baby Bailey.”

I hesitate. Rage icing my insides. “I’m sorry, I answered the phone by mistake. Who are you?”

“Who are you? Where’s Bailey?” The female voice changes and becomes sharp with aggression.

I hesitate.

“Oh, are you the woman we saw in the shopping center? He said you weren’t friends? What’s going on? Why can’t we reach him?”

“You need to speak to him about all that.”

“No, just wait a minute. Zaden! She’s going to hang up.”

I hear a shuffle, and then an alpha’s commanding force comes through the phone line.

“Where is Bailey Raines?”

“Who are you?” I snarl, my hackles lifting.

“Zaden Mirakill.”

I swallow hard. “Mirakill? As in the MC Mirakill?”

“Yes, so where’s-”

“Why is Mirakill interested in BaileyRaines?”

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