Beauty and The Beta (Bailey) novel Chapter 294

Chapter 104 Knox

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“Telling myself I didn’t need a man, I don’t need a man, they only hurt me, I was this close” she holds her fingers up showing a tiny gap between her index finger and her thumb “to kissing you in the other week, but you moved away saving us the embarrassment, you make me say the most stupid things… but no I don’t want you….” Her cheeks were tinted red with embarrassment….

She had been feeling all the same things I had?!

“Wait…. You felt all that too?” I have to say ” but you don’t want a mate?” My heart was burning eternally hopeful right now having heard how she had been feeling that she had changed her mind.

“No”

My heart dropped.

“I didn’t think I did….but….. I don’t know….. I didn’t think my mate would be you…… the things Manuel said made me think……“she kept pausing, like she didn’t want to admit her feelings, I didn’t want to push this.

“Lilah its fine, just know the things you were feeling I was feeling, so I think there was something there beside the bond sweet, but nothing changes, there is no pressure…….. I want my mate, my love, L want you, everything Manuel said is true, he just puts it nicer than me” I see her smile “I think it’s the Spanish words personally…” I tease…. She smiles again….

“He does have a way with words, goddess help his mate!” she laughs.

I laugh too, the tension between us has eased a little.

She is stood in front of me, my beautiful mate, turns out she has been in front of me a whole lot longer than any of us realised………..I offered her my hand, she looked up to me, those big blue eyes of hers framed with long lashes, gazing into my own eyes, I saw her smile as she ignored my hand, instead choosing to come and give a hug.

I was good with that….. I kiss her gently on her head. She looks up to me and I cant help myself, I bend my face down to hers, looping my hand into her long blond hair, and pulling her close to me as I lower my lips to her….

It felt like we were moving in slow motion, I could feel the sparks of the mate bond from where we touched and it felt amazing…..she surely felt that too?…. I could feel my heart racing…. Or was that hers?… it was hard to tell to be fair, her warm lips against mine felt so good, I felt her kiss me back,

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that was good right?…….

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I found the pressure of the kiss deepen slightly, her hand was now in my hair….I slowly parted her lips with my tongue, allowing my tongue to reach hers…….. I could feel her gasp for breath slightly as we continued to kiss, I pulled her closer, sliding my hands down the smooth curves of her body to rest on her hips, not wanting to let her go, I felt her nibbling my lip.

Fuck this felt good….how had I managed without her?!…. shit, everyone was in the living room…. gently stopped kissing her, oh I really didn’t want to,….. the realisation that all our friends had just witnessed out first proper kiss….awkward….

“We have an audience sweet so maybe we should stop….” The look of sheer horror on her face as the realisation clearly hit her too was a little funny, we both looked to the living room, to our friends…. They had all gone….. thank goddess….

You guys left…. I linked jake.

Yeah figured you needed some privacy, you guys need to sort this dude. I can see what she means to you. He links back. Besides we don’t need to see that he jokes.

Thanks bro. I need to come up with an explanation as to why we only just realised she was my mate for her pack when we go tomorrow. She can’t go back there Jake….

Not a chance in hell is she going back bro. we’ll think of something. Let me think. You just be with her, she needs you, you need each other….

I looked to my side where Lilah had been stood, but she had gone, I quickly walk inside, panicking thinking she has left me…..I cant see her in the living room…

Shit I freaked her out kissing her…. I shouldn’t have pressured her…. My mate doesn’t want me……

I run my hand through my hair, heading to the doorway of my suite, to go look for her, when she steps out of my kitchen “Knox I cant get your coffee machine to work” she says innocently.

I quickly go to her and grab her into an embrace “I thought you’d left me!” I exclaim, panic was evident in my voice.

“I came to make us a drink as we didn’t get our earlier ones” she explained “why would I leave?” I

chuckle.

“Me panicking sweet. Let me sort you a drink. Then I need to take you shopping for clothes for here.” I say, my breathing calming slightly knowing she is ok and still here as I walk into the kitchen setting up the machine, not having the heart to tell her she hadn’t plugged in the right socket.

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“I have clothes at home I can get tomorrow Knox. I can ask Indie if I can borrow some until then” she

looks to me.

“Please? I want to…. Just a few bits…. All the chunky boots you like?” I grin at her.

She laughs at me “I guess a look wouldn’t hurt…..”

That’s my girl…..

“Maybe we can grab some food, seeing as we never ate either. Jake going to have a think about an explanation for your pack why we didn’t know I was your mate until now ready for tomorrow. Then when we get back how about we all watch a movie and order pizza or something?” she smiles at me.

“I had a think…” this sounds ominous I find myself thinking but she continues “it may be more straight forward than we think to explain Knox…”

“How so?” I’m intrigued.

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“I don’t think I ever mentioned ever working directly with you, I only mentioned that I worked with Jake and Manuel, occasionally Gabe. That I saw Dan when he brought Indie. They don’t know I was friends with you all, they thought when I visited it was to see Indie so would be no reason for me to see you so we could quite easily have missed each other. Until I stayed last night….”

This could work….

“Straightforward, no trouble, no hassle and believable, you sure you never mentioned working with

me?” I didn’t know if that offended me or not.

“I know I didn’t as I didn’t want it to irritate Logan and him stop me working, he had an issue with me being near another Alpha so I never mentioned you…” she smiled awkwardly.

haha his dickishness actually worked in our favour….

“I didn’t want him trying to start something with you” she says.

Haha, that little weakling. I had to hold back my laughter.

“Sweet he doesn’t scare me, plus he wouldn’t…” I offer her a mug of coffee, she takes it to the small breakfast bar, placing it down and sits down on the stool before looking down at her phone, scrolling through something, then she passes it to me…..

It is a load of screen shots of messages from Logan, the ones she is showing me I see are the day she started at our office, the day she left early… him demanding she answer his calls… accusing her of disobeying him… ordering her back to her pack… saying she should not be working for another

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