Page 95 of Losing My Siren Luna
I feel it. I can feel his love in every one of his actions today, in each and every word. I can’t say I reciprocate his feelings, but I feel like I could. Not today, but some day. Someday soon.
We stay like that, just breathing in each other’s expelled breaths for some time before he pulls away from me, gripping my hands and pulling me up to a sitting position on the bed.
“I really should take you to dinner now,” he sighs. “I’m sure I’ll be getting an ear full from Cherum too. Thegritty bastardprobably got an ass full of thorns.”
“Poor Cherum,” I giggled, “You should doctor it for him to help it get better.”
He snorts. “I’m going nowhere near his ass or red curly pubic hair. He will have to find someone else to nurse him back to feeling better.”
“I guess I should offer my services,” I sighed, standing at my feet, “I am the reason he was chasing you so enthusiastically.”
Lachlan, or maybe even Killian, growls at my suggestions, making me giggle again.
“You will be going nowhere near his ass either. I’ll get Nilo to help him.”
“Is that part of the Beta duties?” I grinned.
“It is now, if it keeps my wife from trying to do such a task.”
“Maybe Nilo needs to be pitied more than Cherum then.”
“I think the only man you should put that much thought and feelings towards should be me, your husband,” Lachlan grumbles.
“My dishonorable cheating husband?” I smirked as we walked down the hall towards the great hall for dinner. We are nearly an hour late now, but I’m sure they will still have something for us. Cherum likely saved food for me. I doubt he would have done the same for Lachlan though. I’ll take pity on him and share my food if that happens.
“I wasn’t cheating. I was being strategic.”
“Strategically dishonorable?” I lifted a brow.
“Strategically cunning,” he grins, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. “I got my kiss.”
My face heats at the reminder. “I think it’s only fair that I also get my prize as well.”
“Of course,” he kissed the top of my head. “I’ll put the pitiable Nilo in charge tomorrow and we can take the entire day to do whatever you wish.”
I clap my hands excitedly. “Can we go to the orphanage and swim with the kids too?” Little Westley told me he didn’t know how to swim and I have been longing to teach him. The orphan boy thinks very highly of his Alpha and would be ecstatic if I brought Lachlan with me.
“If that is what you wish,” Lachlan looks warmly down at me.
Chapter 31
Leona POV
My stomach churns as I step off the ship, my feet finally hitting dry land. For some reason, the Gamma sent warriors and scouts on this ship too. I was already on board when they boarded at the last minute before the ship cast off. I’ve had to stay hidden away like a rat in the bottom quarters of the ship ever since.
I wouldn’t have even known the men were scouts if two of them hadn’t been frequent customers at the brothel. They sought the mousier women, not able to handle what I had to offer, though I offered frequently. Being Lycan, not human or werewolf like the other girls, I guess I was too intimidating to the weaker customers. The alpha was the only customer that I actually felt any joy from being with anyway.
Who wouldn’t, with his dominant, aggressive bedroom manners? He didn’t get as rough with the other girls as he did with me. That’s how I know I meant something to him. He treated me special, being wild and rough with my body on the nights we shared. Yes, he may have been cold and distant, but I expect any alpha to be the same.
That skinny bitch he married and Yasmin, the drab whore, who couldn’t even handle multiple men at once without whining and moaning about it, ruined everything for me.
Lanny would have eventually gotten bored and came to find me again. There is no way a dismal, practically flat-chested girl could keep his attention for long. She was a true bitch, too boring and dreary for Lanny.
I check to make sure the coast is clear, Gamma Meldec’s men nowhere in sight. When I was told to leave the brothel by Lady Vera, then denied access to the packhouse, the guards claiming Lanny forbade it, I had little option on where to go next. The ship setting sail for the pack that the bitch came from seemed like a good enough idea for now. I gained that alpha’s favor when I offered Yasmin for their particular requests. He kept calling his niece a whore and bitch, rarely addressing her by name the entire evening. Maybe he will help me get back on my feet.
Looking around, I can tell this pack is very different from the one I just left. There are very few women out and about, and the ones that are out are dressed so conservatively that I look very out of place. I self-consciously started to pull up the bosom of my blouse, but it was cut in such a way that it wouldn't cover much more. I had to resolve myself to pull my shawl up over my shoulders. I still catch many men staring at me with a look that sends shivers down my spine, but I try not to show how uncomfortable it is making me.
I started to walk to the town’s center, hoping the packhouse was easy to find, and I could get there without running into the Hidden Cove Pack warriors.
