“Then prove to her you are not! But letting your temper get to you and storming off won’t help you. You will just scare her away more.”
“I just don’t want her to leave me.”
“Then make her stay. Fuck! This feels like I am talking to a four-year-old and not an Alpha.”
He was right, but I just lost it. “I don’t know what to do anymore.”
“One day, one fucking day, and you’re giving up? Tell me why you think she’s leaving, because I didn’t hear her say that out there!”
I let out a deep sigh before I started explaining. “When she came here, she asked me to teach her how to drive, so when it’s time for her to go, she can drive, and I agreed. And I promised her I would give her a car too. She might be planning to leave once she learns how to drive.”
“Then you have time to win her back. She can’t learn how to drive in one day. But now we’re all back to zero because you let your temper snap again.”
I rested my elbows on my desk and palmed my face.This is fucking hard. I fucked up again.
It was almost midnight before I got the courage to drag my feet out of my office. I’d been contemplating sleeping here, but I didn’t want Nadia to think I didn’t want to be with her. But I was nervous about facing her after I stormed off earlier.
I was hoping she was already asleep. At least, if she was, then the chance of her shoving me away from the bed was next to impossible.
I slowly opened the door toour room and slipped my head inside, peeking around like a schoolboy scared of getting caught.
The room was already dimmed, and I saw her figure tucked inside the sheets on her side of the bed. She was asleep.
I carefully walked without making any noise and made my way to the shower, taking a pair of clean sweatpants with me. I didn’t think Nadia would appreciate it if I lay next to her in just my boxers, so even if sweatpants were not comfortable, this would do for tonight.
After I was done with my shower, I found myself standing at the foot of our bed, just watching as her chest rose and fell while I dried my hair with a towel. I missed her, and I wondered if I would get a chance to hug her tonight.
I closed the window and locked the door before I carefully slid inside the blanket and lay on my back, one hand under my head. Even if I was tired and didn’t get enough sleep last night, sleep wasn’t taking over. But at least her scent was calming me and my wolf.
I knew I had to work harder and control my temper. My Beta was right—I needed to prove to her that I was no longer the same man that I was with Andrea. That I could change.
I was having a conversation with Hunter when I felt Nadia move from her position. My eyes snapped open just in time to see her body turned around, facing me. Her eyes were closed, but her hand was reaching for something until it landed on my chest. The sparks traveled all over my body, waking up all my senses. She slowly inched closer until her head found the corner of my arm, making me smile in amusement as she snuggled herself onto my body, her arms and legs hugging me.
I lowered my arm and let her head lie on it, wrapping it around her as I closed my eyes again.
For sure, she’d be furious tomorrow if she woke up in this position, but until then, I would let her warm and soft body rest against mine, and lulled me to sleep.
Chapter 43
NADIA.
Iwoke up wrapped upin Riley’s arms, and I almost forgot that we were not on good terms at the moment.
I missed his warmth and the explosive sparks that only his touch could give me. I reveled in them until it dawned on me that he had taken advantage of my sleeping state. I told him to stay by his side, and he obviously didn’t keep his word.
My nose flared, and I was about to wake him up so I could berate him for his actions when I realized that I was actually the one sleeping on his side of the bed, which meant I was the one who crawled over to him. Unless he carried me to his side.
But he had told me previously that I always crawled to him, so I wasn’t sure if this was my doing or not.
So instead of confronting him, I found myself placing a soft kiss on his nose before slowly and carefully sliding to my side of the bed and curling up under the blanket, hoping he would never find out that I slept in his arms and that I stole a kiss from him.
I tried to go to sleep after that, but I couldn’t anymore. And it didn’t take that long before Riley moved and rose to his feet. He didn’t even bother to check on me before he went to the bathroom. It took a while before he came out, and he just walked out of the bedroom afterward.
I sulked in annoyance because I was ignored.
‘He probably thought you were sleeping. Stop with the drama.’Arrow snarled in my head, and I just rolled my eyes at her.
‘But he didn’t even check on me. Or at least kiss me like he usually does, even when I was asleep.’
