Alpha’s Badass Mate novel

---- She lays a hand over Sam's heart, the soft pounding giving her comfort , and leans her forehead against his chest, next to his hand, closing her eyes, shivering from Sam's caresses up and down his spine. Ahe sighs wearily, words trying to form but still muddled , debating whether it's wiser to push them back. Her heart leaps suddenly, and Sam speaks and breathes against his ear. "I'll always be here for you, Monika, I promise with my whole heart.

You'll never be alone again, and I'll never love you less than right at this moment." Monika feels herself tremble, her whole being, a tear sliding from her eye, dropping onto Sam's skin. She moved tenderly until she opened her eyes, looking right into Sam. "Tread something once that stuck with me.

I don't remember the exact words, but it was something like this: Letting go of our most painful experiences can be the hardest thing we'll ever do because it requires us to forgive ourselves and the situations we found ourselves in without our fault, but we still blame ourselves for. We have to realize the past is over, even if it still hurts sometimes.

I've forgiven you completely, and I never really blamed you for anything in the first place, and I'm working on forgiving myself, which is tremendously harder." ---- He smiles sadly, settles his hand on Monika's face, and moves his thumb lightly on her chin. "But I think whoever wrote that wasn't totally making it up.

We can only move on from something traumatic like that if we forgive and let it go." Monika watched him, a slight blur still in her vision, listening intently, opening herself to his words, their meaning, the truth, and also the pain. Sam blinks, takes a deep breath, and meets her eyes again, feeling grateful and amazed by her. He stretches his neck to reach her lips, still swollen from their earlier onslaught of passion, and kisses her lovingly.

"There's nothing to forgive you, and I know we can only accept what happened and move forward. And I will try just as hard as you to forgive myself." A teardrop grazes and falls from Monika's smile, but Sam knows all of her genuine emotions, her eyes shining brightly with sincere conviction , easing the last of Sam's doubts . She smiles happily , wipes her eyes, and pushes Sam back, moving on top of him, caressing away her tears while kissing him wholeheartedly , to let Sam know that she, too, believes in them.