Breed Me, Daddy Alpha-Chapter 282

My entire body went cold because my wolf never sounded like this. Not once. She was reckless and wild and usually laughed in the face of danger like she had a death wish, so for her to suddenly sound sharp and restless made my heart start pounding so hard I felt it in my throat.

"Damon," I said quickly, my voice too high and too fast, all of it spilling out before I could stop myself. "Please don’t go."

He paused immediately, his dark eyes dropping down to meet mine, his brows drawing together just slightly as he studied my face.

His hand was still warm against my cheek, steady and grounding, while I was practically vibrating with this awful feeling twisting through me.

"Kitten—" he started, his voice low and careful like he was about to tell me everything would be fine, but I shook my head so quickly my hair fell into my face and my hands clutched the front of his jacket like I could keep him here if I just held on tight enough. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"No, Damon, I’m serious," I said, my words coming out fast and shaky because my chest felt too tight and my wolf was pacing like she was about to tear through my skin.

"Please don’t go. I don’t like this feeling. My wolf doesn’t like this feeling. Something is wrong. I can feel it in my stomach. I can feel it in my chest. Just stay here, please. If you walk out that door something bad is going to happen, I can feel it."

Damon finally sighed, the sound coming from deep in his chest, heavy enough that I felt it in my bones.

His hand stayed on my cheek, warm and steady, his thumb brushing my skin as though he could soothe me into silence even when my entire body was screaming for him to stay.

His eyes held mine the way they always did when he wanted me to listen, dark and certain, as if the whole world would bow before his words if he told it to.

"Kitten," he said slowly, his voice calm in a way that made my stomach twist because I already knew he was going to leave no matter what I said. "You know who your Alpha is, right? You know no one can hurt me."

I wanted to shake him. I wanted to scream that my wolf was still pacing inside me, that my heart was beating so hard it hurt, that there was something wrong and he was acting like this was just another normal day when it clearly wasn’t.

"It’s just your pregnancy hormones," he continued, his voice softening as his eyes warmed in a way that made my throat close up.

"Please don’t cry, okay? I will be back before you even have time to miss me. I just want this to be over so we can leave this place behind for good.

"We will go home, and you will not have to think about any of this again. It will be just us, our lives together, and nothing else getting in the way."

The way he said it made it sound so simple, like he could just demand the world to behave and it would fall in line because he was Damon, because he was Alpha, because he carried himself like nothing and no one had the power to touch him.

And maybe that was why my chest hurt so much. Because I wanted to believe him so badly. I wanted to believe that he could go out there, face whatever danger was waiting, and walk back to me like nothing happened.

I wanted to believe he was untouchable, that the dark feeling in my stomach was nothing, that my wolf was just panicking because she had no idea how to handle the mess of fear and love tangled up inside me.

But my hands still clung to his jacket like I could keep him here if I just held on tightly enough. My thoughts were spinning out of control, every possible thing that could go wrong screaming through my head all at once, and I hated that he was standing here looking so calm while my entire body felt like it was unraveling.

Damon leaned down, pressed a long kiss to my forehead, and for a moment I actually thought he might change his mind.

His hand stayed at the back of my neck like he didn’t want to let go either, his breath warm against my hair as he spoke softly, calmly, as though the storm in my chest didn’t even exist.

"I’ll be back soon," he promised, his voice low and steady, like nothing in the world could make him break that promise.

And then he was gone.

I stood in the doorway watching him walk away with his guards. My hands were still trembling from clutching his jacket so tightly, and my wolf was still pacing, still growling in the back of my mind, furious that he had left when every instinct in both of us screamed that something was wrong.

Then I heard it. A gunshot. And then everything hit me all at once.

My wolf snapped to attention inside me so violently I felt my knees go weak. Every hair on my body stood on end.

My chest clamped down tight like someone had reached inside and grabbed my heart with both fists. It was him. I knew it was him.

"Damon!" I screamed.