"ishould be angery at you" I whispered brokenly

"thenwhy aren't you?"

"idon't know" I sighed pathetically

Itilted my head up to look at him and he craned his head to look downat me his eyes full of a mix between adoration and devotion

"stoplooking at me like that" I mumbled turning my gaze from him andfocusing on the wooden floor

"likewhat?"

"idon't know, like i'm the only thing that matters"

hekissed my neck gently causing me to shiver and gasp softly I shook myhead pulling away from him completely

"stopthat" i seethed

hetilted his head in question and I growled

"stopkissing me, without my permission!" he grinned not at allapologetic

"ican't help it"

Igrowled against and he took that chance to pull me back to his chestand I sighed in defeat going willingly

"just.....stop" I whispered "why do you keep doing this, you know it won'twork, and even if it did your Mate would come along and take youaway"

"I'd leave them for you"

"likeyou wou---" I stopped breathing looking up at him wide eyed "whatdid you say" I said raggedly

"i'dleave her, him both of them all three of the the group of them foryou all for you"

"why?"I spoke I was my forever reoccuring question

"becauseI love you" he stressed but I shook my head

"no,you lust for me it's not the same as loving shawn"

"ilove you and i'll tell it to you every day until my dying breath evenif you don't believe me"

"no"I said firmly

Ipushed against his chest fighting him but he kept repeating his wordsintimatly into my ear over and over again while holding me close

with agrowl I stopped fighting forcing all my weight forwards causing himto fall into his back his grip loosening as I straddled him pinningboth of his wrists beside his head

lookingdown into his eyes searching for a hint of the white lie that I wasconvinced he was telling me....

butafter boundless moments of silent searching

...

I sawnone

it waspure unadulterated truth

"Ilove you" he purred gently

and Ifelt tears bubble up in my eyes as I felt the pure conviction of hiswords hit me like a freight train

overwhelmedby the devotion and adoration in his eyes I allowed them to fallhitting his cheeks silently

hefreed his hands from my grip and pulled me to him whisperingcomforting words into my ear

"whyare you crying?" I shook my head I wasn't going to answer

"lex"he breathed against my ear "out of all the things i've seen happento you it's this" he raised his hand and ran a thumb over my tearblotched cheek “that I hate to see the most, now tell me why you'recrying?"

"youshouldn't love me, you have a Mate out there somewhere even if youdon't believe you do, I don't want to take that chance away from you,their out there somewhere looking for you and i'm not going to stealyou away from them just because i'm greedy" I took in a deep muchneeded gulp of air only to hear him chuckle softly

goddessdid I love that sound

"greedy,oh by any means i'm the greedy one, I scented you for havens sake, Imarked my territory on you without permission warning every male tokeep their distance, and I never regreted a thing, I was happy to dothat"

Ishook my head sadly wanting to tell him otherwise but he trapped myface between his hands lifting my chin so that our gazes met

"you'rethe most selfless wolf i've ever met" he whispered then kissed melovingly