Chapter 12: The Alpha's First Lick

He took her by the hand and brought her over from her seat to take a seat on his lap. She sat gingerly, careful of the stitches still healing in his side.

“Don’t be surprised if one day, your name is even stronger than mine.”

She kissed his cheeks, not certain how that could ever be possible.

“I want you,” he growled low in her ear.

“Your wound…” she tried to warn but he was lifting the hem of her dress. She pushed the hem back down and returned to her own seat. “I’m not going to be part of any explanation for why you need new stitches.”

She picked up her own stitching, which had fallen to the floor, and tried to continue with an elevated heart rate and trembling fingers.

Declan laughed, noticing that she had to undo the same line of stitching twice.