Episode 70

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MIKAEL'S POV

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“Thank you, Mikael.” It’s pleasing to hear her call my name instead of the formal, rigid salutation of Alpha she dearly values.

“You smell more of yourself than you did in the bathroom.”

Her smile is tender though laced with caution. “I used my personal products afterward.”

“Come sit here with me.” She marks my instruction, and heads in my direction, taking an opposite to mine. I chuckle as she has wrongly interpreted what I said. “Sit with me in this chair.”

Her brows raise, and she stares warily at my lap and upper limbs like they are contraptions that could explode at any instant. “No.”

“Why not?” My grin is nothing less of a snarl. “I don’t bite.”

She narrows her eyes until they are in a squint, the viridescence of her irises fading from view. “You do bite.”

“I do.” I concede with a wink that she scoffs at in return. “But I won’t now, not without your consent. Not unless you want me to.” I know the look she wears. It’s one I’ve noticed to make an entra