Come for Me by C.J. Sweet

Author:C.J. Sweet [Sweet, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

At the ball, Colin insisted we dance. He dips me back until I’m halfway off the floor and his eyes stare deeply into mine.

“In addition to the ball, I have one more surprise for you.”

I stare at him quizzically. What else could there be?

Colin lifts me and spins until I come face-to-face with a man with slicked-back blonde hair, dressed to the nines in a black tux.

“May I cut in?” Sam asks. Colin and Sam acknowledge each other with a nod. Sam bows to me and then takes my hand, wrapping the other around my waist. I rest my hand in his and the other on his shoulder.

“I’ll leave you two to it,” Colin says before exiting the dance floor and disappearing among the crowd.

Once he is out of earshot, I throw my arms around Sam, embracing him. He hugs me tight, and we stay there for a moment.

I pull away. “I can’t believe you’re here.”

Sam positions me with my hand entwined in his and an arm around my waist, then leads me to the rhythm of the violins. We float across the floor. Putting full trust in him, I don’t even bother paying attention to where we’re going. I’m too focused on what he’s doing here.

“What’re you—how did you?”

I can’t figure out where to start. How is Sam here?

“Colin invited me.”

Sam says it so calmly. As if none of the shit before ever happened.

“He just let you come here?” It doesn’t make sense. Colin just killed his best friend. Our king. Now, here they are, in proximity to each other like nothing happened. “And you just accepted?”

“I wasn’t going to pass up the chance to check on you. I wanted to make sure you are okay.”

I shrug. How could I begin to express how I’m feeling? “They keep talking about me becoming a hybrid, uniting the kingdoms against the rogues and vampires. I can feel them eying me. They hate me.”

Sam looks around us briefly, then returns his focus to me.

“They don’t want a werewolf as their queen any more than I want to reign over them,” I say. “Especially not alongside him.”

Sam nods, taking everything in. But he doesn’t react. His eyes don’t even flicker gold.

“How are you so calm about this?” I ask.

He sighs. “This is how monarchies work, Alaina. Kings are replaced, queens are bargained. When I became a beta, I knew this was a possibility. Colin is just one of the many who dreamed of killing Dax and taking his throne.”

“And you’re just okay with that? He killed your best friend.”

“Of course I’m not okay with that. I’ll never forgive what he did to my brother . . . and to my sister.” He stares at me with intense sincerity. “I’ll never respect him, but I have to adapt. Lives depend on it.”

It isn’t what I would expect to hear from a guy like Sam. One who is practically just as stubborn as I am. I never took him as the logical type as well. Able to put away emotions to avoid feeling them.

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