“I saw, baby.” My voice cracks. “They are amazing.”
He leans into me, yawning, his small body trembling with leftover excitement.
I look up just as the wolves shift back, one by one, clothes quickly being tugged on. Parker ruffles Jax’s hair, Ryder brushes a kiss to my temple. Callen winks.
Remy stands slightly apart, his hands shoved into his pockets, and his shoulders tense. When my gaze meets his, he swallows.
“Paige?” His voice is rough, almost hoarse. “Can we… talk? Alone?”
My heart leaps into my throat.
I nod slowly. “Of course.”
He hesitates, then jerks his chin toward the trees. “Walk with me?”
Leaving Jax nestled safely between Ryder, Callen, and Parker, I follow Remy into the woods. The sunlight shines through the leaves in patches across his broad shoulders as he walks at few steps ahead of me. He doesn’t look back, doesn’t say a word, but I can feel the tension radiating off him like heat. The bond between us hums with something restless.
When he finally stops, he doesn’t turn right away. He stands there, fists clenching and unclenching at his sides. My heart hammers, my throat tight with the weight of all the questions I haven’t dared to ask.
At last, Remy glances over his shoulder, green eyes locking with mine. They are raw and vulnerable in a way I’ve never seen before.
“I need to tell you something,” he says, his voice low.
** Paige’s POV **
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I tug my cardigan tighter around myself even though the morning air isn’t cold. My nerves are the actual cause of the chill I’m feeling, as I watch Remy’s shoulders tense and relax like he’s fighting himself.
He’s stopped us in a small clearing where the sunlight shines through, highlighting the beauty of the place. A fallen tree rests in the centre, its bark thick with green moss. The top is worn smooth as though it’s been sat on frequently. Remy doesn’t sit. He doesn’t even move. He just stands rigid in the stillness, fists clenched at his sides, as if the weight pressing down on him might break him.
I swallow, my voice low. “Remy… you’re scaring me a little.”
That makes him turn. His green eyes are so raw they nearly steal the breath from my lungs. “I don’t want to scare you. That’s the last thing I want.”
“Then talk to me,” I whisper. “Please.”
For a moment, he only stares, jaw tight, chest rising and falling like he’s forcing air into his lungs.
“I’ve been trying to stay away,” he admits. “From you, from all of it. Because I don’t think I deserve any of it.”
“Deserve?… Remy, what are you talking about?”
His laugh is sharp and bitter, but it breaks halfway through. “Do you have any idea what it’s like watching Parker open up when I’ve spent years shutting myself down? Watching Callen make you laugh while all I do is make you unhappy?”
Tears sting my eyes. “You don’t make me unhappy…”
“I do,” he cuts me off, voice cracking. “And for a short time I wanted to. I wanted you to hate me, because that would make it easier to walk away. But now I can’t, because the bond, this connection we have… it’s burning me alive.”
My breath hitches. The air between us feels electric, humming with everything unsaid.
“I feel it too,” I whisper.
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His hands tremble at his sides. “Then you know why I stay away. Because wanting you terrifies me. If anything happened to you or Jaxon because of me… I couldn’t survive that, Paige. I’ve already lost too much.”
I step closer, my heart breaking and soaring at the same time. “So you think the answer is to punish yourself? To punish me? Because that’s what u’re doing. I’ve been standing here waiting for you, Remy. Wishing you’d just… let me in.” own
He shakes his head, looking down as if he can’t bear my gaze. “You don’t understand. After everything I’ve lost, I swore I’d never let myself be that vulnerable again. Then I broke my promise and let Callen in, and you know how that turned out… I’m not sure I can get through another heartbreak.”
I reach for him without thinking, my fingers brushing his arm. He flinches, not away, but as if my touch burns.
“Remy,” I say, my voice shaking now. “You’re not the only one who’s lost people you loved. I know what it feels like to break under that pain. And no, I don’t know how it turned out between you and Callen, because your story isn’t over yet; you’ve just hit a small bump. If you can’t see how much that man loves you, then you are blind. He told me he wanted to keep his relationship with you, even before learning you and I were fated too.”
His eyes lift to mine, and for the first time, the walls I’d always seen behind them crumble. There’s only hope and a longing so fierce it nearly knocks me off my feet.
“You’re my mate,” he whispers, sounding broken. “The bond has been driving me mad, begging me to accept it, to accept you, But I’ve been fighting it because I didn’t think I deserved the kind of happiness you’d give me, not after…”
“No,” I cut him off as hot tears roll down my cheeks. I don’t even bother wiping them away.
Don’t you dare tell me what I deserve, Remy. That’s not your choice. It’s mine. And I choose. you.”
“f**k it,” he breathes.
In two strides he closes the distance, his hands cupping my face. It feels like home.
“Paige,” he murmurs. My name sounds like a prayer on his lips.
Then he kisses me.
The bond ignites, stealing my breath, surging through me like wildfire, like lightning, like every storm I’ve ever weathered all at once. My knees buckle, but Remy’s arms wrap around me, holding me up and pulling me closer until there’s no space left between us.
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He kisses me like a man starved, like he’s been drowning for years, and I’m the first breath of air. It’s rough, desperate and trembling, but beneath it all, there’s a tender adoration and hope.
I cling to him, my fingers digging into his shirt, kissing him back with every ounce of the longing I’ve bottled up since the day I first saw those haunted green eyes.
When we finally break apart, gasping, foreheads pressed together, I can still feel the bond pulsing between us, fierce and unyielding.
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