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Cian entle but heavy pressure of his hands landing on entle squeeze of reassurance ave them a chance

Odhran didn’t say anything, but he did givethat for aratitude Finally he cleared his throat and rested fully back in the chair, looking over at where Cian stood

“Left last night,” he said and let those words hang between us, and I felt ot loud “Figured ye’d want privacy,” he added as if this wasn’t theto ever talk about “Contacted Adryan, and I went over tae the other property he was at, started early, looking over all he has on the Assembly”

Cian sat in the seat besideout?” I kneas referring to his mate, but when Odhran shook his head sharply, I felt my chest crumble a little more for him

“I ca tae head back and search more”

All of us were silent after that, but I could see Cian’sover all the information

Odhran ran a hand over his jaw and closed his eyes for atae find anything useful” God, he sounded so defeated, but there was still a fire in his voice “But I have tae keep looking I have tae keep trying” He opened his eyes, and I wished things could’ve been different For hier

“I’ll coo over all the information But I’ll stay here tae make sure yer mate is safe”

I looked between the two ht Adryan said the house was protected?” Not that I wanted to be here alone anyway, but if they had stuff to figure out, a way to work through this and end it, I didn’t need nor want anyone babysitting

“I would no’ fooking trust Adryan to pick uptae me,” Cian said as he stared at me, that look of wonder on his face so heavy I felt it wash overye with me, but in this, Adryan is correct, asye here, protected ards to keep others froure out how tae end this, and the sooner it’s done, the sooner we can start…”

I heldfor what he was about to say

He leaned in, and in a low, deep voice, he finished, “…The sooner I can start building a proper life withher”

I felt like my smile was so stupidly happy spread across my face, and I didn’t even care if we had an audience I was ready for this, I realized I was ready to finally do so this crazy—but wonderful—life with Cian

“I suggested Adryan co,” Odhran said, and when I looked at hi too much PDA for the likes of hi my shit and soldiers over there just tae put a couple of Lycans at ease because they have a weak human female in their midst’”

Cian growled, low andthat” Cian looked atmy cheek

“No killing necessary” I shookme a weak human female could rile hieneral, but I felt like learning everything that made my mate tick was at the top of that list, especially if he could easily kill so me

This was proving to be a very interesting journey, to say the least

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Evelyn

I lay on the couch with s stretched out on the cushions and a book inon the words though, not with the way Cian was playing with h the strands slowly