Page 157 of Eclipse Sector
Kieran and the others were talking around us, but I didn’t listen. I didn’t fucking care. All that mattered was Ivana. Our incomplete bond. Our stranded souls. We needed to be united, to become one.
Her lashes fluttered, her thoughts seeming to brush mine.Granger?she asked.
Is a fucking dead man,I vowed, sending another blast through his broken mind for good measure. Someone was binding him physically.
Grey, I realized.
But I immediately disregarded his actions and focused on my beautiful Omega. Her pretty blue eyes slowly peeked up at me, her cheeks still a pale shade that made my heart race.
“Vana,” I whispered, my voice holding a note of reverence to it.
This female was everything.
Powerful.
Gorgeous.
Determined.
Confident.
She’d fought for me for so long, and I’d repaid her with rejection—something I’d denied before but now saw how right she’d been to use that term.
I had rejected her at every turn.
Told her to find another Alpha.
Someone worthier. Someone better. All while ignoring that I could be that Alpha.
Because I feared becoming my father. I feared extending his familial line. I feared letting everyone else down by prioritizing a mate over their security.
But by doing so, I gave all those fears purpose. I lived in the past. Let my father’s ghost haunt me for over a thousand years.
No more.
I was done letting a dead man dictate my wants and needs.
Done listening to that voice in my head that claimed I wasn’t good enough or deserving of a mate.
Ivana and I were more powerful together than we were apart. Today proved that. Hell, the last six years had proved that.
I’d been alone without her. Lost. Unconsciously miserable.
And it’d taken her calling me a coward to set me straight.
It’d taken me watching her with other Alphas, realizing that I might just lose her once and for all, to wake the fuck up and claim what had been mine for years.
Then I’d messed up again during her heat. After her heat. Even right fucking now.
I threaded my fingers through her hair, my gaze holding hers. “You’re mine, Vana.”
She swallowed, her eyes searching mine as I unleashed every thought into her mind. All my anguish. All my longing. All my unfulfilled desires. All my frustration. All my fears. All myeverything.
But most importantly, I shared my love. My devotion. My intention.My claim.
Tears formed around her irises, making the blue depths glitter.
Then she subtly tilted her head to expose her neck, the invitation clear. “Bite me, Alpha,” she whispered, her full lips moving with the words.
