Alpha Damon (Sienna) novel Chapter 196

Damon:

Something was off.

I saw it in her eyes when I saw her in the living room, but now it was becoming a lot more obvious. Now even trying to ignore it was becoming a little more difficult than I wanted it to be.

I watched her from across the room as she folded a blanket, her movements careful, almost too careful. Her shoulders were tense, her expression distant, and for the past few hours, she’d barely looked at me. It wasn’t coldness, no, it was something far worse. Fear.

“Sienna,” I said gently, stepping toward her. “What’s wrong? You’ve been off since I got home. What happened? Did anyone bother you? If there’s something that you are trying to hide from me, talk to me, baby girl.”

Isla was asleep in her crib. And I knew that Sienna was going to do her best to try and avoid any conversations, but I did not want her to ignore this.

She hesitated. Just for a second. But I caught it. That crack in her composure. She looked at our daughter for a moment before she turned to look at me, her eyes searching mine.

“Do you love me?” she asked quietly.

I blinked, taken aback not by the question, but by the way her voice trembled on the last word. As if she was afraid of the

answer.

“Where did that come from?” I asked, crossing the space between us and cupping her cheek. “What happened? What makes you doubt my love to you, Sienna?”

She didn’t pull away, but she didn’t answer either. Instead, she lowered her gaze, her voice a whisper. “There’s just so much happening, and I feel like I’m losing pieces of myself every day. You’re the one constant I have, Damon… and I think I just need to know. I don’t know how to explain it to you, but even the idea of losing you is not one that I want to think about.”

I let out a shaky breath, brushing her hair behind her ear.

“If I had to go through every painful moment again, if I had to relive every fight, every scar, every damn war just to end up right here with you, I would. Every time,” I said. “Because you are worth every wound, Sienna. You are worth every single moment that I’m living through. The anger, the rage, the fights. You are worth at all.”

Her breath hitched.

I tilted her chin up, forcing her eyes to meet mine. “I love you. In ways I don’t know how to explain. In ways that terrify me. But I do. And I always will. I want you to understand that I’m never going to stop.”

She did not speak, nor did she respond, but when she closed her eyes, I leaned in and connected my lips with hers.

Soft at first. Just a brush of her lips against mine. But that was all it took to unravel the restraint I’d been holding onto all day.

There was just us.

Our bodies moved together like we were made to fit this way, our breaths syncing as one. She moaned my name softly, her fingers lacing with mine as I moved within her, drawing every ounce of her emotion to the surface. I kissed away her tears when they came. I held her when she trembled. And when we came undone together, it was slow and deep, the kind of release that felt like redemption.

Afterward, I stayed inside her, our skin slick with sweat, our chests heaving as the world returned to us in slow pieces. I lay my forehead on her neck, breathing in her scent, allowing myself and my wolf to rest in her embrace.

“You’re so beautiful, do you know that?” I asked, pulling out of her before laying down and pulling her to my chest.

She rested her head on my chest, her fingers tracing slow circles there. “Thank you,” she whispered.

“For what?” I asked, pressing a kiss to her hair.

“For being my home,” she murmured. “For being everything that I could have ever asked for.”

And in that moment, I knew… she was mine. Entirely, completely, irrevocably mine.