Chapter:- 48

Ammy doesn't remember the last time she visited the Will's manor. She knows it was with Sebestian and she's sure Jia and Allen were there as well, but she'd spent most of his time in the vineyard just waiting for time to pass. Willing herself to be brave enough to breach the distance between her body and Sebestian's.

"You didn't have to do that, you know," Sebestian says. His skin is still damp from the shower, and he runs a towel through his hair slowly. "I can take care of it."

As long as Ammy has known Sebestian, he has taken hormone suppressors. Once a year, every spring, his placebo pills come in and he squirrels himself away somewhere remote to go through his rut, alone. Ammy doesn't know what compelled her to come with Sebestian this year or why he agreed, but things are different now. Something has changed between them in the last few years.

"Maybe I just wanted to get drunk on really good wine," Ammy says. She tries to ignore the black towel hung low on Alpha's sharp hips and