Alpha’s Badass Mate novel

---- be mean to him as much as I want because it's my job as his bandmate to bully him." Monika harrumphs and turns her attention back to disinfecting the scratch and bandaging it. It's blissfully silent as he works, with Jack observing them from his desk like an annoyed friend who's forced to babysit little babies. In a sense, it's true. Sam was frequently left at Jack's house to play with him when he was a kid.

He never really stops 'babysitting' Sam, even after Sam can be left to his own supervision. "All done," Monika beams, planting a kiss on the bandage, and Sam smiles. "Thank you," he replies, giving Monika's forehead a kiss. Monika's face tilts up, and they slot their mouths together , kissing casually and enjoying the moment. But their moment is interrupted rudely by Jack, who bellows with mockannoyance, "This is an infirmary , not a love hotel.

If the doctor comes back, he will sure kick your asses." Monika groans loudly, and Sam chuckles against her lips. He leans back to see Monika pouting and frowning. "The door's over there." Monika turns to glare at their resident annoying boy. "You can always leave." "This is my father's infirmary." "It doesn't seem like you're doing any healing or ---- medical stuff." "T regret getting you two together." "You didn't get us together ; we got together on our own!" Monika vehemently denies.

Jack snorts, "Oh, really? Because, from what I recall, " They've had this argument many times over the past five years , and, by now, Sam thinks he remembers their dialogue word for word. He lets them duke it out for a while, though, because it's basically a form of bonding for them at this point.

After some more bickering between his girlfriend and his friend, Sam finally cuts in, "You know, we would've been out of your hair ages ago if you'd just fixed me up." "You'll be out of my hair when you finally leave for university this spring," Jack quips back, and Sam glares. Monika is quiet now, her fingers going stiff on Sam's forearm. Sam glares harder and nods forcefully at the door. Jack rolls his eyes but says, "Fine, fine, I'll leave.

But I just tell you guys the truth." "Kiss each other better and send me a text when you finally leave," he calls from the door before shutting it with a dramatic flair of his coat. ---- Silence persists long after Win is gone, so Sam flips his arm over and takes Monika's hand into his. He rubs soothing circles onto the back of his beautiful hand as Monika gathers her thoughts. It takes a couple more minutes before Monika finally looks at him.

Her eyes are red and watery, and Sam leans in to press soft kisses at the corners of her eyes. He rests his forehead against Monika, breathing in the air Monika breathes out, taking in his presence and her smell. He likes it a lot; it's very soothing. It feels good; it feels like home. Monika is his home. After a while, Monika pulls back to look at him before she surges up to kiss Sam, like this is the last time they kiss.

Sam just sighs into Monika's mouth and parts his lips, letting Monika roam around as she likes and stay for however long she pleases. Eventually , he ends up with a lap full of Monika and the taste of salt in his mouth. Monika is crying; he realizes this belatedly and pulls back to wipe the tears away with his thumbs, only to have Monika kiss the digits. "Monika, baby," Sam whispers, and Monika just pushes her face into Sam's waiting hand.

She just looks at Sam for a while; her eyes are glistening , and Sam's heart aches. He hates it when