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I was pleasantly surprised to hear that. I waited for him to elaborate.
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He exhaled. “If your theory’s right, that this is happening because the bond with two different people is pulling you into two different directions, then maybe finishing your bond with one person would stop it.”
I frowned. “Finishing? How?”
“By finishing, I mean completing. Consummating.”
My heart skipped a beat. “You mean…”
“Yes,” he said, voice low. His eyes went black, and I held my breath, realising how much even talking about it affected him. “I mark you. And if the need be, we consummate the bond.”
My throat went dry. I blinked at him, suddenly very aware of how close we were sitting on the bed. His hand was still wrapped around mine, his other brushing a strand of hair from my face. His lips were inches from mine.
“We’ve talked about this before,” he added softly. “I didn’t want to rush things, I wanted to give you time until we’d figure everything else out. But this isn’t just about wanting. you anymore. It’s about protecting you. If our bond is strong enough, whatever you are should be satisfied with just my scent
too.”
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I swallowed, hard. My skin was already littering with goosebumps. “But if we do it, and it still doesn’t stop?”
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“Then we’ll try something else,” he said simply. “But if we don’t at least try, and this keeps happening, you could end up somewhere worse. Somewhere we can’t get to you in time.”
He wasn’t wrong.
Was this what I wanted?
Yes. I’d wanted for very long now.
But like this?
My silence must have worried him, because he cupped my cheek, his blue eyes full of concern. “Lia. What are you thinking?”
“That I want it to be real,” I admitted, my voice sorrowful. “Not just something we do because I’m sleepwalking.”
His eyes softened. “It is real, my love. I’ve wanted you since the moment I saw you on our sixteen birthday. You know that.”
I nodded.
“Do you want me to mark you?” he asked, voice low and rough now, barely above a whisper. “Do you want me to make you
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mine, Lia Snow?”
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My breath caught in my throat. If he asked like that, I would have said yes to anything in the world. “Yes,” I whispered, completely sure of it.
His lips crashed into mine, taking me by surprise. His hands moved to my waist, pulling me onto his lap. I kissed him back with as much passion, wrapping my arms around his neck, pushing closer to him. His warmth, his scent, the quiet growl vibrating in his chest, it all wrapped around me, making me forget everything else. Everything I had been through the previous night. Every danger that still lurked in our lives. Nothing mattered now. Only he did. Zane. Zane Adams.
His hold tightened onto my waist, and then I felt his nails gently poke my skin. Not nails—claws.
A shiver crawled through me as I realised it was getting closer.
Zane pulled away to breathe, and then immediately began to press kisses to my jaw, slowly inching downwards.
I felt the gentle scrape of his sharpened teeth against my skin, and my heart raged in a mix of fear and excitement. When he met my gaze, his eyes were completely black.
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