"I love you," she whispers, and it aches like only something that is worth it could.
"I love you too," Marley whispers back. It somehow makes everything so much worse, to know that she is loved in all the ways but the one she wants. Still, it simultaneously makes everything better, to know that she is loved by Marley at all.
Willow places soft, tender kisses all over her face, taking her time with each one until she finally reaches her lips. She hovers, just staring down at them with the knowledge that she's in too deep. No matter who, or what they become, she'll always have been, and be Marley's, someway or another. She'll always have kissed her, touched her, loved her, even if she manages to bring herself to stop one day. The fact that she might have to, eventually, is what really hurts the most.
OR
The one where communication is impossible, sex is easy, and nothing is right when they're not together
My mum always used to tell me what it's like to see your mate for the first time. She used to say that at that moment, everything around you stopped, that nothing else mattered.
And nothing else would matter. If it wasn't for the little girl clinging to my leg right now. That little girl that trusts me with her life, that beautiful little girl that made me hold on and not give up on life. That little girl, whose father is standing in front of me right now. He's my mate.
The edges of his lips curve and he looks up and down as if checking me out.
"Long time no see." Are the words that first come out of his mouth that break the silence.
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Lexie is an Alpha's daughter. She faces a hard few days and thinks a night at the club will help her get through this. A few drinks won't hurt, right? At least that's what she thinks. Yet that night will change everything sooner than she would ever imagine.
When the next day, her pack gets attacked, everything is chaos. Her mother and father are killed and her world shatters. She's forced to run away and leave everyone that she still has left behind. She thinks she has no one... that's until she finds out about another heartbeat in her body.
Raising a baby on your own is hard enough. After a few years she finally meets her mate though and it turns out she knows him after all. How will she confess that her mate is actually her daughter's father? What will happen now?
We don't live in a fairy tale where every story has a happy ending though. Real world isn't that easy...if you can call a world full of mystical creatures very real.