Conner POV
He’d walked into the packhouse to see Marlo and Eliza strolling up the stairs together and felt pure annoyance roll off of Atlas at seeing it. Walked over to the stairs and headed up there himself. He was angry to hear that boy hitting on her, wanting to kiss her. Heard him tell her so and that tone he'd used, it was all charm. If she let him kiss her, that boy's head was coming off.
Then, to hear Marlo have the hide to ask her out, tell her that he didn’t want to have s*x, actually using the bloody word, which could only mean he was thinking about it. Very bold of him, he heard her turn him down and felt relief flood through him, not just his wolf but himself as well.
Barely contained himself as he climbed that last flight of stairs to look down the hall to where she stood
