Chapter 0229

“Seriously?” He asks with a raised brow, bringing his fingers to his mouth to taste my juices that covered them.

“You have made it very clear that you want me to be your mate.” I mutter, pulling on a pair of workout leggings. “I’m not ready.”

Shit, wrong choice of words.

“Every day that you don’t let me claim you, we risk the chance of finding our actual mates. And then we won’t stand a chance. When will you be ready, Blair? Six months, a year, five years? You know we are good together.”

“Don’t push it!” I snarl through gritted teeth "And I've travelled the world, my mate doesn't exist!"

“Are you scared, is that what it is?”

I pause as I pull on my workout top. “Scared? You think I’m scared.”

“Something is holding you back!” He snaps at me. “Every moment that I think this is it. That I have found someone I can be with. You throw it back in my face.”

“Right, let's say you do mark me. What happens when I die? What I do doesn’t guarantee my life, Jenson? You could mark me and I could die tomorrow. Do you really want to lose another mate?”

wasn’t ready for the truth. I grab

you

was so angry. Why did he always have to push? Why did I let him get

six feet under if

I flick out the mat, he appears. His arms folded across his wide chest as he leans

that you’ve never felt

in his direction and abruptly pull them over my head, silencing him, but it doesn’t

my yoga session, I rip the headphones off. “You

same things. We enjoy each other and I know the very idea of me being with someone else puts you in a

“No it isn’t.”

you not telling me? I’m sure I can handle it. Is it something to do

“No.”

all the clues. Clues that I hadn’t intentionally told him, but ones that slipped out when talking

forward, taking my hands in his. “I can handle it. Whatever it is. We can figure

itself up in knots, something I hadn’t felt since I was a kid. He was the only person to make me feel like this. The only person to see something other than the

clothes on.” I sigh. Someone would find

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