The Biker Alpha Who Became My Second Chance Mate\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 353\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan\u00a0<\/p>\n
I woke up with Athena in my arms and for a moment I just lay there, afraid to move, afraid to breathe too loudly in case this was a\u00a0<\/p>\n
dream and any sudden movement would shatter it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
68\u00a0<\/p>\n
The morning light filtered through the curtains, casting soft shadows across her face, and I studied every detail like I was seeing her\u00a0<\/p>\n
for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her dark lashes rested against her cheeks, her lips were slightly parted, and there was a peacefulness to her expression that made my\u00a0<\/p>\n
chest ache because I knew I\u2019d almost lost this, had almost destroyed everything with my anger and fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She stirred slightly and I tightened my arms around her instinctively, needing to feel her warmth, needing the reassurance that she\u00a0<\/p>\n
was really here, that she\u2019d forgiven me, that we\u2019d made it through the worst fight of our relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last night replayed in my mind like a movie I couldn\u2019t stop watching.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After my apology, after I\u2019d poured my heart out standing in Orion\u2019s living room, after she\u2019d eaten.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d spoken to her again, promised her I\u2019d never make her cry again, she\u2019d look file tooth\u00a0<\/p>\n
closing the distance between us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
at me for what felt like an eternity before finally\u00a0<\/p>\n
She hadn\u2019t said anything at first, just wrapped her arms around me and buried her face in my chest, and I\u2019d held her like she was the\u00a0<\/p>\n
most precious thing in the world because she was, she absolutely was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u2019d stood there for I don\u2019t know how long, just holding each other, both of us crying, both of us shaking with the relief of knowing\u00a0<\/p>\n
we were going to be okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then she\u2019d pulled back and looked up at me with those beautiful eyes and told me she loved me, told me she\u2019d been scared too, told\u00a0<\/p>\n
me she should never have said we were over because the thought of losing me terrified her just as much as my fear of losing her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u2019d talked for hours after that, really talked, laying everything out on the table and addressing all the fears and insecurities that had\u00a0<\/p>\n
been building up between us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d told her about how helpless I felt knowing she was pregnant with twins, knowing that her body was going through so much and\u00a0<\/p>\n
there was nothing I could do to make it easier or safer for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How I couldn\u2019t help compare her to Jess and that was my problem. I\u2019d layed myself bare to her, not hiding anything or acting like an\u00a0<\/p>\n
alpha or a man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d been me, that scared boy, who had lost so many people and is afraid of losing another one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d admitted that when I woke up and realized she\u2019d used her powers to heal me, all I could think about was what might have gone\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
18:33 Thu, Jan 29\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 353\u00a0<\/p>\n
:\u00a0<\/p>\n
wrong, how much energy it must have taken, how the strain of healing me could have affected her or the babies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
68\u00a0<\/p>\n
She\u2019d cried again when I explained it like that, had told me she understood but that I needed to trust her to know her own limits, to trust that she wouldn\u2019t do anything to deliberately put herself or our children at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d promised to work on that, promised to stop trying to control everything around her in some misguided attempt to keep her safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She\u2019d apologized too, had told me that saying we were over was cruel and unfair, that she\u2019d been so hurt and angry that she\u2019d wanted to hurt me back, wanted me to feel even a fraction of the pain I\u2019d caused her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d told her I understood, told her I\u2019d deserved it after the way I\u2019d acted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u2019d agreed to communicate better, to talk about our fears instead of letting them build up until they exploded, to remember that we were on the same team, that we loved each other more than anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And then I\u2019d carried her upstairs to the rooms we were making use of, because there was no way I was letting her out of my sight, no way I was going to sleep without her in my arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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