Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 33919 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 113(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33919 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 170(@200wpm)___ 136(@250wpm)___ 113(@300wpm)
He smiled. “And that feeling has never gone away. I have a gift for you.”
“Christmas presents go under the tree, Shadow.”
“This one can’t wait.”
Lisa frowned and she grabbed a towel, wiping her hands, and coming toward him. She took the gift from him and then tore open the wrapping. It was a welcome mat.
“No doormat resides here,” Lisa said, reading it aloud. “Shadow?”
“I don’t see you as a doormat. I never have. I don’t see you as weak or less of a person.” He reached out and cupped her cheek. “I don’t know how to make up to you that shit I said. It was nothing. I love you. Since you heard what I said, my life has been crap. I’ve hated it. I’ve hated not being able to be close to you. It breaks my heart watching you leave me each night.”
She’d not done it since he asked her to stay, but it was the fact he had to ask her to stay in the first place.
“I’m not keeping you around because you’re the mother of my child. I’m keeping you around because you are the love of my life, Lisa Bennett. I want to be your everything, just as you are my everything. One day, I hope you can forgive me. Also, there is something I want you to see.”
He pulled out his cell phone. He hated the technology, but it had its uses, mainly for getting in touch with Lisa. That was the only reason he purchased one. He never wanted to be apart from her. Shadow found the video, and then pressed “play,” turning up the volume.
“Have you got the angle right?” Shadow asked.
“Yeah, I’ve got it. You’re all in the shot, don’t worry, Lisa is not going to mistake this for being anyone but you,” Pam said.
Lisa frowned and he nodded down at his cell phone.
“I’m Shadow Storm. I’m the Alpha of the Storm pack. Many of you know I have been dating Lisa Bennett who works at the coffee shop in No Wolves Road. Many of you might also know I said some bad shit about her. Called her weak and said I was only using her, but that is wrong. I was wrong,” he said. “Lisa Bennett is the love of my life, and she is expecting my child. I’m so freaking grateful that she is expecting my child, because the truth is, I don’t know how I am going to win her back. She is not a doormat. I love her more than anything in the world. I want to spend the rest of my life with her. I want her as my mate, my wife, my partner, and the mother of all my children. Not just this one.”
“You’re rambling,” Pam said.
“I’m doing the best I can.”
He looked at Lisa and saw the tears in her eyes.
“You love me?” she asked.
“More than anything in the world.”
“Why don’t you get on your knees and beg a little more? That might work?” Pam asked.
“You’re being a pain in the ass,” Shadow said.
Lisa’s gaze went back down to the cell phone, and she began to laugh, and that lightened his whole fucking world, hearing that soft laugh, knowing he’d caused it.
“It’s freezing,” Shadow said.
“Yeah, and you need to freeze your ass off to make it up to her. Now, come on, let us hear you beg,” Pam said.
He stared into the camera, and Shadow looked down to see Pam had zoomed in.
“Lisa, I’m sorry. I know words will not work, and I know you are probably doubting everything I am saying right now, but I love you. I will never do that to you again. I swear it. Please, give me a chance, let me show you how good it can be between us.”
“You’re sounding desperate,” Pam said.
“I am desperate. I’m trying to get the woman I love to fall in love with me again.”
Pam tutted. “Lisa is already in love with you. What you’re trying to do is get her to forgive you.”
“I don’t deserve forgiveness.”
Lisa turned the cell phone off. “I don’t need to see anymore.”
“Lisa, I’m so—”
He didn’t get a chance to say another word, because Lisa cupped his face and pulled him in close, kissing him.
Shadow didn’t know for certain what this meant. Did it mean she forgave him? He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her in close, not wanting to let her go. Sliding his hands into her hair, he felt her moan against him, and then she broke the kiss. She smiled up at him, and he stared down at her.
“Lisa?”
“I love you,” she said. “I never stopped loving you, and I forgive you.”
“What?”
She laughed. “I forgive you.” She cupped his face.
“But, I was so horrible,” he said, frowning.
Lisa laughed. “You’re questioning if I should forgive you or not?” she asked.