CHAPTER 119 - HOUSEBOUND

-BLAYNE'S POV* Anxiously, I ran down the stairs to go towards Cleo's cell. On the third step away from the landing, I paused. I hadn't thought this through. Alpha Vance had permitted Cleo to leave the dirty dungeon. Her liberation was contingent on her acceptance to move in with me. My heart was bubbling with delight, but underneath the surface, concern levitated. What was I going to say? The last thing that Cleo wanted was to be housebound at my apartment. I exhaled through my mouth. Duke was right, she was bound to reject the notion. Those two annoying friends of mine suddenly made me nervous with their taunting this morning. Just because their mate relationship shit was going fluently did not mean that they had to rub it in. Many things went against my favor where Cleo was concerned and arresting her was the biggest blunder. Despite the sizzling hot, intimate nights we had during her heat, she reverted to giving me the cold shoulder. Conversations with her were forced, rather