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stopped talking, since she wasn’t able to really form
a sentence. She stood slowly, but he wouldn’t let her move the
chair back, and that put her stomach right in front of him. He
purred, releasing the chair and wrapping his arms around her. He
nuzzled her stomach through her shirt, that crazy rumbling making
her spine tingle.
    “ Fuck, you smell good. I
scented you at the paddock and I couldn’t control my reaction. I
would have torn that fence apart if my alpha hadn’t knocked some
sense into me.”
    Her knees went weak, and she had the
urge to sink her fingers into his hair and find out how soft it
was. So she did.
    “ What the hell is going
on?” she whispered, testing the silky strands of his hair as he
continued to purr against her belly, his hot breath making her skin
goosebump.
    “ I’m a lion shifter,
Celeste,” he said, looking up at her, his eyes an even brighter
amber color. “My pride lives and works here in the park. I’ve been
waiting to meet my soulmate, the one female in the whole world
who’s perfect for me. It’s you.”
    “ We just met,” she said,
even though there was something about his words that rang
true.
    “ Doesn’t
matter.”
    “ I don’t
understand.”
    He smiled, and her stomach fluttered.
“We don’t have to rush anything. But you do have to keep the
existence of shifters, and this park, a secret. I want you to stay
with me.”
    She arched a brow at him. “I have a
life outside of this park, a job and friends. Oh! My friend Adriana
was in the Jeep behind mine. She must be finished with her tour by
now, and she’s probably worried about me!”
    A soft growl rumbled from his chest
and he stood, not letting go of his hold on her waist as he strode
to one of the desks and picked up a walkie. He pressed a button and
said, “This is Jupiter. I’m looking for a VIP guest named Adriana.
She was in Jeep number four.”
    There was static and then a voice
said, “There was a problem at the gorilla paddock. Caesar is
handling it because you’re busy.”
    “ What do gorillas have to
do with my friend?” Celeste asked.
    “ Is the guest
okay?”
    There was a brief pause and the man
replied, “Yes, she’s fine. She’s Zane’s soulmate. But we have a
bigger issue that will have to be addressed with a
meeting.”
    He let out a short growl. “Fuck. Damn
it.”
    “ No, not you,” the man
said, “you’re out of things for now.”
    “ I want to be kept
informed,” he said. “It’s important to my mate.”
    “ Will do.”
    “ What’s going on?” she
asked as he set the walkie on the counter and turned to face
her.
    “ I don’t know, but the
important thing is that your friend is safe.”
    She chewed on her bottom lip. “Are you
sure?”
    “ First of all, she found
her soulmate in Zane, a gorilla shifter, and he would rather die
than let anything happen to her. And secondly, that was Xavier, a
member of my pride, and he wouldn’t lie to me.”
    “ Why?”
    His brows rose. “We value honesty, and
I’m second-in-command of the pride. He knows he’d have a big
problem with me, and the alpha, if he was dishonest.”
    “ And the big guy who pushed
you away from the fence is your alpha?”
    He nodded. “Caesar. He’s my dad,
too.”
    “ I’m…not sure what to make
of all this. It’s impossible.”
    He pressed his big, warm hand over her
heart, which made it skip a beat. “In here, my beautiful mate, you
know the truth. You can feel it, even if your head is telling you
that it’s not possible. Don’t ask me to let you go, because I
can’t, and I won’t.”
    “ So I’m a prisoner?” she
asked, tilting her head and gazing up at him. His eyes flashed as
his nostrils flared, and she saw the little bit of hurt that slid
through his golden gaze.
    “ You’re mine. If not being
able to let you out of my sight makes you think of prison, then I’m
not doing a good job of making you understand what I am, and what
we are together.”
    “ Mates.”
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