Alpha’s Badass Mate novel

---- some satisfaction-his daughter being somehow superior to me-and I left him this small joy. After all, it was almost a small miracle he was sitting here with us, pretending this was all something normal for him. Allen interrupted him for the first time. "It won't be like that. Being a mate is a lot flatter now than back in your days. We're going to work together, rather than Sebastian for me. After all, he knows many things a lot better than I do.

I'm going to rely on his help." "Back in your days?", Mr. Robert repeated with a wink in my direction. "It seems like she's actually calling his old man old." He laughed his booming laugh again, which made me think, for the first time, that I might actually find a way to like him.

Not because I had to, not because it would make my life a lot easier , not because he was Allen's closest living relative and a loving father, but because he was, beneath everything that had made me resent him for so many years, a genuinely nice person. "Well, Sebestian ", he continued , raising the glass of wine that Allen had bought for the occasion. "It seems like you need to teach her some manners." In the end, Sebestian was surprised at how easily the evening went.

He had expected more tension , more awkward moments, and more trick questions. ---- Instead , it turned out that Mr. Robert was perfectly capable of pleasant conversation , even though they did hit the occasional pitfall. It wasn't really the easiest kind of situation, Sebestian figured, with years of suffering as a treadmill between him and Allen. Still, we all did our best. Mr.

Robert made sure to repeatedly praise his cooking and even requested some of the leftovers when we had finished eating. "T'll give my cook a day off tomorrow", he said with another wink. "That will make him very happy." Fortunately , he didn't show any intention of staying much longer after dinner and exchanged a few muffled sentences with Allen in their hometown language , which Sebestian didn't understand at all, while he started to clean up the kitchen.

It was a habit he kept even though they had many housekeepers , as it made him uncomfortable to have dirty dishes piling up until the next day. He only picked up bits and pieces of the conversation because he isn't exactly fluent , but enough to know it was all harmless , just casual inquiries about Allen's work and health. There seemed to be an easy familiarity between them that I envied.

Even though Allen and Sebestian had settled all misunderstandings years ago, there were still occasional moments of awkwardness between them, like between a normal couple. After all, more than seven years had passed, and with them came so many unshared kisses, so many mornings of waking up ---- alone, and so many habits developed in the other's present . He had his Allen as an innocent and happy student, only to find her again as a grown woman with responsibilities and a fair share of scars.

The scars her parents had caused, at least to some extent, were still itching and aching and required care. Ienvied Mr. Robert for not being with Allen during all those years; he didn't watch her become this person I had to rediscover. When Allen went to the bathroom, Mr. Robert walked over to the kitchen and watched me work in silence for a moment before asking in a low voice, 'Has she been eating well? How is her stomach?" "There haven't been any major problems recently .

Sometimes she'll feel bloated and have slight cramps, but not as bad as they used to be." Mr. Robert nodded his slow nod again. "I see. Well, I'm glad you're taking care of her. She's terrible at that herself, to be honest. She has tended to skip meals since she was little; she just forgets them. Sometimes she eats late at night when she remembers, and then she sleeps poorly because of it." Sebestian nodded but didn't mention the other part, the mental part, behind all of it.

How Allen would break sometimes under stress or a heavy heart. That much Sebestian had learned. It wasn't just the regular meals that helped her; it was holding her gently after