Chapter 217

Cole’s POV

“Let go of your hair Cole. I need you to step back until you reach the couch.”

I partially do as she has asked me. I manage to start taking steps backwards towards her black leather couch but my hands are still in my hair, the pain I’m causing myself becoming my main link to a reality I’d rather not know.

“Please sit. I know what I intend to do will be hard but I need you to understand who I am as much as I need to understand you.”

I sit down on her couch and lean all the way back, closing my eyes as I fight the panic that threatens to destroy me. I choke back a yelp and contain my desire to fight as I feel her climb onto my lap, straddling my legs as she sits upon them.

“Jessa, please. I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to be a mate. I’m not allowed near the women or children of my pack. I don’t date. I don’t get intimate. I don’t get close to anyone. Anyone that does suffers from the effects of my nightmare. Plea