 |
✨EXCERPT: MARKED BY LOVE by @margot.primrose.romance releasing October 19th!
#PreOrderNow
Theodore considered the alpha, then his stomach rumbled.
“This is delicious. Oh my—I’m starving.” He finished the bar in two bites and seized a second. Apparently, his body was trying to make up for all the missed meals in one day.
“If you were so hungry, why didn’t you eat the pastries?” Royce looked at the fresh pink box sitting on the counter next to the grease-stained one.
“I wasn’t sure about them … I didn’t know what was in them, and I didn’t want to be rude by asking. Also if they were poisoned, the poisoner wouldn’t tell you that.”
“Who gave you the box?” Royce asked in alarm. “Was it someone from outside Elk Cove? What did they look like?”
“It’s an omega that’s been to the clinic before. Shorter than me, a little gangly, dark black complexion, smiles way too much.”
“Does he wear bow ties and have an evil cat named Stardust?” Royce deadpanned.
“I wouldn’t call her evil.”
“That’s Hershal,” Royce sat in the living room with the pastry box, handing it to Theodore. “He owns the bakery in town and made the other pastries you ate. His mate, Amelia, works with me.”
“Oh …” Theodore took the box.
“Theo, why would you automatically assume one of our citizens would try to poison you?”
“I don’t know, why would he give me free pastries?”
“Some people are just nice.”
“Sounds suspicious, if you ask me.” Theodore plucked a cookie from the box. It was small and covered in powdered sugar. He sniffed it—lemon.
Royce chuckled and shook his head. “And I thought I was anti-social.”
“I’m distrusting, there’s a difference.” Theodore stuck his tongue out, then shoved the little cookie in his mouth.
#margotprimrose #fatedmates @theauthor.agency
No comments:
Post a Comment