Chapter 216

Cole’s POV

After lunch with alpha, Jessa somehow convinced me to come back to her apartment. At the moment, I loved the idea but now that I’m standing in her living room, my mind has gone insane. I have never, and I do mean never, been completely alone with a lady before. The closest I’ve ever been was when I was dating Rachel and Rebecca and even then I left in a hurry when they wanted to get intimate with me.

“Are you okay?”

Jessa’s voice breaks through the fog consuming my brain. I look up briefly from the floor as she walks in with a glass of tea in one hand and a bottle of water in the other.

“I haven’t drunk from either. I wanted to give you the choice. I know we haven’t spent much time together.”

I nod before reaching for the water. We notice the tremors in my hand at the same time causing me to chicken out of taking the drink from her. I walk to the sliding glass door on the southeast side of her apartment instead.

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