Chapter 422


    Chapter 422- Bath Time


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    “Cora,” I scold, frowning, “you know I don’t’ feel that way – ”


    “Well I know you’d never say it,” she protests, sighing. “But I do get that this union between a wolf and


    a human that, symbolically, it’s important. And even if you’re not disappointed that it could be…


    disappointing.”


    “I want you to have the mating ceremony you want, Cora,” I reply, steady in my truth here. “Especially


    in the case of something as important as this.” I give her hand a little squeeze before pulling mine


    away. “But if you’d like to consider a middle path…maybe you could let me show you what I was


    thinking?”


    She turns her head to look up at me, surprised. “You’ve been…nning?”


    “Just a little,” I say, unable to keep the eagerness out of my voice. “Justte at night when Sinir is


    asleep and I can’t sleep, or I get up to feed Rafe – ”


    “You’ve been loosing sleep over this!?”


    “No!” I protest, but then I hesitate. ” Well, not much.”


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    “Just – can I show you what I was thinking!?” I plead, “sister to sister!? And then, if you hate it, you can


    say no.” A wide grines to my face then. “But I think you’re going to like it.”


    Cora gives a big sigh, leaning back into her seat and closing her eyes. ” Fine, E,” she says. “But this


    is not a yes.”


    “I didn’t think it was!” I say, newly excited. Because honestly…it’s gorgeous, and I can’t wait to show


    her my ns.


    When Ie sighing into our rooms that evening, Sinir immediately looks up at me from his casual


    position on the bed – looking down at his tablet, still doing work, as usual – and immediatelyughs.


    “What?” I ask, frowning, my baby strapped sleeping to my chest. I put my hands on my hips. “What’s so


    funny?”


    “Nothing,” he says, gracefully unfolding his gigantic self and standing up from the bed. Then he slips


    his hands into his pockets and smirks as he looks me up and down. “I just didn’t realize I was mated to


    someone who spends their days toiling in the mines, is all.”


    “What?” I ask again, confused, and Sinir,ughing, nods towards the bathroom. Both irritated and


    interested at once, I hurry in and gasp when I see myself in the mirror. “Oh my god,” I murmur, leaning


    in to get a good look at the very realyer of dusty dark brown grime that’s covering me from head to


    foot. “Honestly, why did they let me into the pce looking like this!?”


    Sinir, stillughing,es to stand behind me. I groan when I see our contrast in the mirror – him


    the perfect Alpha King, clean-shaved and pressed – and me, a messy ball of dirt with crazy hair –


    And then I gasp when my eyes light on little Rafe, who is likewise covered in a lightyer of brown dust.


    “Oh my god!” I exim again, immediately beginning to ruffle his hair and moaning as a little puff of


    dust explodes into the air. “Ohhh, little baby! Mommy’s sorry!”


    “A little dirt won’t hurt him,” Sinir chuckles, reaching out to unstrap the baby from me. “Dirty in those


    camps, is it?”


    “It’s bad, Dominic,” I murmur, helping him take the baby from my arms. “Honestly, if this is what we look


    like after just an afternoon, imagine how those people are living…”


    “Well, we’ve diverted a lot of attention to it,” he replies, holding the baby away from him a little as he


    carries him over to his little baby bath. “Hopefully all of the people will be out of those terrible camps


    and in better situation in a month’s time, though of course some cases will take more.”


    Rafe, waking a little now that he’s away from the warmth of my body, starts to cry a little in protest.


    “Oh,” I say, my heart going out to him. I hesitate, wondering if I should just take him and let him sleep


    dirty honestly, I can’t stand to hear him cry like that –


    “Keep going, E,” Sinir murmurs, smirking at me andying the baby down in his bath. “Let him cry


    a little for once he’s the happiest baby in the world, it doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.”


    Then, as I begin to strip out of my clothes, Sinir takes off Rafe’s little outfit as well, tossing it into the


    hamper.


    “You know,” I sigh, watching the little pieces of baby clothing disappear into the basket, “he’ll probably


    be too big to wear those by the time they’re clean. He grows like crazy.”


    “Damn straight he does,” Sinir says, tickling Rafe’s naked belly, proud, as he turns on the warm


    water and prepares to start bathing him. Rafe still fusses unhappily but reaches for his father’s finger,


    wanting to hold it.


    My heart breaks with how damn cute it is, seeing them together, before I turn and start the water in the


    shower for myself. I continue talking to Sinir as I climb into the hot stream, relishing the feel of it


    against my tired muscles.


    “I talked to Cora about the wedding,” I call over my shoulder, starting to shampoo my hair. “I don’t think


    she’s into it, Dominic. I’m sorry.”


    “That’s disappointing,” he replies. ” But yeah, Roger told me pretty much the same thing.”


    “Are you mad?” I ask, turning to see his reaction, and Sinir shoots me a little look of disbelief.Books


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    “Of course I’m not mad, E – ”


    Iugh a little, shaking my head and turning away to rinse the shampoo from my hair. “That’s not what I


    mean I know that you’d never be mad at them for wanting a different kind of mating ceremony. But…


    does it mess up your ns at all? For the coronation, and the coronation weekend?”


    “It does a little,” he calls to me. As I soap my body, I smile to see him taking a washcloth and using it to


    gently clean the baby, making soft, warm noises to little Rafe as he does. Rafe, tired, lets his father


    know his protest, but my heart swells with the patience I see in my mate as he washes his baby,


    exining softly to him that he’s sorry he has to take a bath sote at night, but mommy got him all


    filthy doing her humanitarian projects –


    Iugh when I hear Sinir’smentary and flick a little water from the shower at him, which makes


    Sinir turn to me with a grin.


    “Will you be able to fill the time at the coronation?” I ask, soaping up my loofah and beginning to clean


    my body. “With some other activity, that might convince the humans and the wolves that we’re united?”


    “Probably,” Sinir says to me, giving Rafe a final rinse. “But…let’s see if she can’t be persuaded,


    E,” he says, reaching for a towel and then lifting the baby out of his tiny tub and wrapping him up and


    turning to me. “I have a feeling that when Cora sees what you’ve got nned for her, she’s going to be


    swept away.”


    I grin at him as I, too, rinse myself off and warp a towel around my body. ” How do you know what I’ve


    got nned?”


    “You’re not the only one upte at night,” he murmurs, carrying my warm, clean baby over to me. ”


    Sometimes I see what you do.”


    “And sometimes,” I say, grinning up at him as I take Rafe from him, wanting him close again. Rafe


    immediately quiets when he’s in my arms again, which pleases me to no end. ”


    Sometimes you just snore endlessly, keeping Rafe and I up for hours – ”


    “Lies,” he snaps, smiling a little as he takes my chin between his thumb and forefinger and turns my


    face up to him.


    “You like it when I snore. Reminds you that a strong, powerful Alpha is sleeping next to you, ready to


    rip your enemies to shreds – ”


    I bite my lip a little, grinning up at him because…well, honestly, I do like that. I like that quite a bit.


    “I’m not sure I need the snoring to remind me of that,” I murmur, stepping closer to him, feeling a little


    heat build in my core as I stare up into his beautiful, rugged face.


    “And what would remind you of that,” he murmurs, his eyes shing with hunger.


    “Oh,” I whisper. “I have an idea. Or two. Or ten.”