I just... stared. Mouth open. Brain buffering.
How. Was. He. This. Unbelievable?
"Wow," I said finally. "That's impressive. I didn't know shamelessness had a setting past 'maximum'. But here you are. Breaking records."
His grip on my wrist loosened slightly. "Alpha Sebastian isn't right for you. He'll eventually mate with someone his family arranges. You wouldn't want to be some Alpha's mistress, would you? I know you better than that."
I glanced desperately at the door, then the window.
No escape route. No reasoning with him.
Suddenly, I remembered the girl in the hospital. "What about Cici? Your pregnant almost-mate is lying in a hospital bed with stab wounds, and you're here? That's pretty heartless, even for you. Is being a terrible mate your specialty?"
"...She's not pregnant.
