Defy The Alpha(s) novel Chapter 686

Chapter 686: Beast Lord, Taryn

This was a dream come true!

Hannah didn’t even care that he was technically her enemy. She flung herself at Taryn without warning, blurting excitedly, "Thank you! Thank you so much!"

Taryn froze on the spot. Not just because the hug came out of nowhere, but because he was utterly confused by her reaction. He had given her this room specifically to piss her off, not make her happy.

The Fae loved colors, but when Lilarin designed the princess suites and one of the brownies suggested giving one a pink theme, she had vehemently rejected the idea.

According to Lilarin, Violet hated the color, and most humans would rather die than be caught living in that shade once they reached adulthood.

So Taryn had practically been vibrating in anticipation, waiting for Hannah’s lips to twist in disgust and her eyes to light with righteous fury at the violently pink room.

Instead, she was hugging him with excitement, her softness and warmth wrapping around him completely.

Then her delicious scent wafted into his nose, and the beast in him rose. No! Taryn pushed her away before he did something he would regret.

Hannah let out a startled yelp as he shoved her roughly.

"What the—!"

She was ready to curse in a full outburst when a dangerous growl rumbled from his throat, and he bared those enormously large canines at her.

Damn, he was indeed a beast through and through.

The curse died on her lips when she realized she was playing with fire.

Instead, she pouted. "Fine, I won’t touch you again." Then she added immediately, "You’ll be the one doing the touching, then." She laughed.

It was a harmless joke, but Hannah had no idea what that did to the lion shifter barely holding himself together. His imagination had seized on the word "touch", and none of the images were innocent.

Taryn cursed his life. He should never have agreed to this. He couldn’t have another male around his mate—no, he would not acknowledge that.

If only she had agreed to return to the human realm, then he could deal with these feelings alone. Now he didn’t know which was worse: having her around every day or losing her life if the gods rejected her.

Hannah giggled as she ran to the bed and flung herself onto it. She bounced and let out a scream of delight. This was pure heaven, it was so soft it felt like lying on a cloud.

She gathered the sheets into her arms and sniffed them. She moaned; they smelled like pink peony, light and floral with a sweet, airy freshness that reminded her of spring mornings.

She giggled again, kicking her legs in excitement. If her family could see her right now, they’d die from anger and embarrassment overload.

Although the color pink was not outright forbidden in Angus’ household, every one of them would rather die than own a pink item. To them, pink was a girlish color and symbolized weakness. They were raised to be soldiers. Showing even an ounce of softness was enough reason to be picked on by the other siblings.

Hence Hannah had kept her fascination to herself. Her room back home had been painted entirely black—an intentional effort to appear more intimidating, especially since she was often looked down on as a half-breed.

But inwardly, all she longed for was to throw on a pink dress, maybe something with tulle, and just let herself be a girl for one day. Even the romance movies she watched, she had done so secretly. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

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