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I turn to Bemy about to ask how he’s doing when he sweeps me up into a hug, pulling met right off
my feet.
“Thankyou so much. I thought I could handle her but then she started crying. Usually I don’t have a
problem with dealing with people who get angry but it’s not like SHE did anything wrong and I just… got
stuck.” I can feel him breathing into my hair as he ces me back on my feet, holding me close. I stay
still a few moments until he releases me.
“Sorry if I overstepped. I just didn’t like seeing her yell at you. Also I was worried she would wake
Megan, she’s finally asleep.” Bemy shakes his head.
“You didn’t overstep. I know you aren’t ready to be… well, all in yet. But helping with this kind of thing,
emotional Shifters. That is what the Alpha female does. You are going to be so. good at this, I just
know it.” I take a step back in shock.
“I…um. Didn’t mean to…this doesn’t mean.” I stammer out. Bemy takes my hand and runs.
his thumb over the back of my hand soothingly.
“Don’t worry, I understand. I’m just saying you’re better at this dealing with emotions stuff than you think
you are, even if you do turn bright red every time I flirt with you.” He pauses. and winks at me, then
sighs.
“This kind of thing is why the other Alphas are so obsessed with me finding a mate. This isn’t the first
time I’ve folded to tears.” He shrugs and shuffles his feet awkwardly, running his free hand through his
hair.
“But don’t worry about that, I promised not to pressure you and I meant it. I’m just trying to say I
appreciate your help.” I give him a small smile.
“You’re wee. And I don’t mind hearing stuff like this. I don’t want you to bottle things up and deal
with them all yourself. I want to help you where I can. I just need time to get used to… us?” Bemy
gives me a bright smile.
“Thankyou, and I really do understand. I know being with mees with a lot of
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responsibilities that you haven’t exactly signed up for. I just hope you don’t resent me for it too much.” I
shake my head at him and ze his hand.
“I don’t resent you. I just don’t want to rush into anything. Now, you look like you could use a brownie.” I
lead him to the kitchen and settle into a chair while he raids the brownies we
left in the fridge. He nces at a clock and sighs.
“I have more work I should probably try and get done.“I can see he’s reluctant to leave me by myself. I
hop to my feet and wave my phone in front of him.
“I was going to just keep ying on my phone, maybe watch a movie or read a book. Megan is
sleeping so I don’t want to bother her. Is there somewhere I could sit quietly and hang out?” I ask. His
face lights up immediately and he responds almost too quickly.
“My office. You can sit there while i’m working.” I smile and nod following him to his office. I nce
around unsure where I should sit. There’s a chair across from his desk but that might be a bit
distracting.
“Are you sure I won’t be in the way?” I hesitate. Bemy just grins at me.
puts
“Wait here a sec.” He dashes out of the room and a minuteteres back carrying one of thefy
recliners from the living room that I never seem to end up using. Megan and I always seem to be in the
kitchen or her room. I’ve never even sat in the recliners. Bemy
it down and then begins shoving his bookshelf and desk around until he’s cleared a corner to the left of
the room, with far more ease than I expected, he shows off his strength by moving the recliner into the
newly cleared corner. The colour of the ck recliner doesn’t quite match the wood and blue coloured
decor of the office, but it fits in the space well enough. I settle in and Bemy moves to sit behind his
desk. On this angle he is still facing me but I’m off to the side a bit, not directly in his line of sight unless
he turns his chair a little. I sit and find a movie to watch online. I keep the volume low so I don’t disturb
him. At one point he gets up and leaves the office for a few minutes. He returns and drapes a nket
over myp and hands me a te with a brownie and a ss of water, I thank him and he gets back to
work.
My movie finishes and I nce up at Bemy. I expect him to be looking at papers or hisptop, but
he’s watching me. In fact I don’t think I’ve heard him typing for a few minutes now. He doesn’t even
seem to notice I’m looking back at him. He’spletely zoned out. I
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clear my throat and he jumps. He gives me a half smile.
“Good movie?” He asks. I shrug.
“Not bad.” I respond. He opens his mouth to say something then pauses and hesitates. I raise an
eyebrow in question. He pushes his chair back from his desk a little and angles it towards
1. me.
“Want toe over here for a bit?” He asks. I’m not totally sure what he wants but I push my nket
aside, hop up and cross over to his side of the desk. I stop a step away from him. He doesn’t hesitate
and grabs my hand pulling me in closer until I stumble into him. He catches me and sits me sideways
on hisp. I immediately blush red.
“Uhm… hi.” I say awkwardly. Bemy chuckles.
“Hi. Is this alright?” He asks. I nod and hide my face against his shoulder. He wraps his arm around me
and strokes my back.
“How did your conversation with Megan go??” He asks. I sit up a little and give a light shrug.
“Not too bad, she’s not really mad at me at least. You’re going to have to apologise for never saying
anything though, properly apologise. She’s a bit grumpy with you. That’s about all she said about how
she’s doing. She really didn’t want to talk about it.” I exined.
“Ah, I see. I’ll have to apologise.” I can feel him cringing at the thought. Iugh.
“I’ll help you. It’s not so bad.” I assure him. He shrugs.
“What did the two of you talk about then? he asks.
“We talked about the Shifter courting stuff you told me this morning, and why she never said. anything.
I’m still so embarrassed.” I hide my face again as Bemyughs and continues to stoke my back
soothingly.
“I know, I know. I wasn’t sure how to bring it up, especially since you haven’t always been very…
receptive to my attempts at courting.” I mumble into his chest.
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“I might have if I knew what you were doing.” He somehow makes out the words.
“Really? Because you ran away the first time I tried to kiss you.” He points out. I sit up and re at him.
“Because I wasn’t expecting it! I didn’t think you were even interested, I had no idea, I
thought Darrien was exaggerating when he said you liked me.” Iin. Bemy raises an
eyebrow.
“You discussed this with Darrien?”
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“Uhm, yeah. Before we went out to dinner that time. That was when he figured it out. I did
say we were talking about boys.” I joke. Bemy rolls his eyes.
“I knew it. You said you had been talking about the movie. But I knew you were toofortable with
him all of a sudden for it to just be that!” I giggle.
“Well we did discuss the couple in the movie, but we didn’t JUST talk about them.” I admit.
“I’m still not sure how you didn’t realise I was interested in you. Even excluding the Shifter
stuff I wasn’t exactly subtle. I mean, fancy dinner, excuses toe hang out with you, shopping,
dancing together…”
“I might have been in denial a bit, I didn’t want to read into anything and be wrong. Besides, I have no
idea how any of these things work. I’ve always shut down anyone who even tried to get close to me in
that kind of way. I don’t date. Or I didn’t before at least.” I flush red again. Bemy looks pleased.
“Well, it doesn’t matter anymore, you know now. What did Megan tell you about the Shifter courting
stuff?”
“Among other things, she told me how the women are meant to reciprocate. We were talking about
what things the women give as gifts.” I exin.
“You know you don’t have to do all that, I don’t expect you to give me anything. You aren’t at Shifter. I
understand if you want to do things differently.” I give a half shrug.
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“I, I think I want to try. I don’t know about the whole making sure everyone knows publicly thing, but if
this stuff is important to you I can at least look at getting you a gift.” I exin awkwardly. Bemy
makes eye contact with me for a moment before moving in closer. Before 1 know it his lips are on mine.
My heart is racing but I kiss him back. This kiss is rxed and unhurried and I sink into it. Bemy
continues running his hand up and down my back. His hand slips lightly under the edge of my tshirt and
I pause and pull back slightly trying to decide how I feel about it. His hand stills and I’m about to kiss
him again when Megan clears
her throat in the doorway.