Enchanting the Alpha (Hex My Heart, #4) by Talina Perkins Page A

I’m proof of that. Look at how tonight turned out. You could have easily walked out and left me to deal with my own problems. Instead, you stepped between the danger and me. But we are the furthest thing from being a mistake.” She gave a slight pause and bit at her lip. It tore her in half to say what she knew he needed to hear.
    “Say your mind, Harmony. Don’t be afraid.” He brushed his knuckles along her cheek and caught a tear she didn’t notice spill down her cheek. “Don’t shed another tear for me, baby. The past is gone and I have to live with it.” Thin beams of light filtered in from the window. She loved how he looked so calm in the light, so natural, but she knew on the inside he hurt. Whatever effects of her potion had faded a while back, so wrapped up in her own feelings she failed to notice when, but the man left to deal with the fallout needed her help.
    “The tears are for us. I’m afraid of losing us before we even have a chance.”
    “I don’t know what to say.”
    “Say yes to us. Your mother and father lived their life, made their mistakes and you paid for them. It’s up to you if you want to learn from them or let their truth rule you until you’re just as unhappy as they were.”
    He stared down at her for a long silent moment. “Can’t tonight be enough? To simply be here with me.” His lips glanced along the underside of her neck with small, tender kisses that reached into her heart and pleaded his case.
    Her heart broke. “I should’ve known it wouldn’t last longer than a heartbeat. I’m sorry if I hurt you by bringing up bad memories.”
    “You speak as if I’m already gone and not cradled between your legs giving you the best I have. Is that how you really feel? Should I leave, Harmony?”
    “Isn’t it how you feel? That I’m not worth the risk, not worth more than a few warm nights in bed to help pass the winter?”
    A cold stab of panic froze her in place when he pushed up and away from her. Immediately she felt the loss of his weight, the heat that had surrounded them evaporated. For the first time since the change of the season, she really felt the cold of winter.
    This was the moment when the next thing she said would either bring him back to her or push him away for good. Goddesses divine, let her be right. She pushed up on her elbows as he moved off the bed, and turned away from her, effectively hiding his eyes. “You hide from the truth by turning away. You don’t get to ask me questions and then turn away from me when you don’t like the answers.”
    “It’s not that easy.” He angled himself toward her, eyes brighter now than they had been all night.
    “Sure it is.” Her voice cracked, but she held his crimson stare when he shot her a glance over his shoulder.
    “My father was a murderer, a traitor and the one responsible for my mother’s death. She died of a broken heart when the pack turned him away for killing an elder. Then we were forced out too.”
    “It must have been the worst time in your life.”
    “I lost the things I held closest, Harmony. To a shifter, pack and family are everything.” Anger mixed with an ugly amount of pain rolled off him and the psychic in her picked up flashes of him as a young boy with tears rolling down pouty dirt-stained cheeks.
    “I’m here, offering you a fresh start.” She slipped from the bed and walked over to him where he stood next to the window, her palms open. “Let me be your light now. Trust me.”
    “Trust isn’t an easy thing to accept or even give to another.”
    “Then give me a chance to show you how much I trust you.”
    “Do you?”
    “Only one way to find out.”
    “You fight for me when you’ve only known me for such a little time.”
    She slowly moved into him, pressed together from hip to chest she tipped her head up to look into his eyes. “Are you questioning the clairvoyant?”
    That brought a small smile to his lips and right then she’d move the planets to see him smile