Chapter 50: A Deal

***Talia***

“Wh-what if…I mark y-you?” Zane asks timidly, his voice low and soft.

My heart feels as though it might pound out of my chest as a silence falls between us.

He wants me to bear his mark? Now? I stare at him, wondering why he would bring up marking now of all times? Zane seems to understand my confusion and smiles sheepishly at me.

“T-this is w-war, Ta-Talia,” he says quietly, a warm tingle traveling down my spine when he says my name.

“A-and if some-something happens t-to me-me…then I-I want to go out kn-knowing my ma-mate wore my mark p-proudly…”

“Zane…” I sigh tiredly, pinching the bridge of my nose and closing my eyes as I think of an answer.

“You know how I feel about marking.”

“I-l do,” he replies……..

thinking back to the day he explained his

hearing him tell

I had already made

pretty words and jumped into a marriage with a wolf after a couple of nursing

around my heart crumbles, Zane making me believe that perhaps a wolf can love a simple human, but

cheeks and pulling me in for

my face like little waves of pleasure, my body

he whispers, his lips

second time he has said it, but my breath still hitches in my

words to him because it would make them real and

he repeats, his thumbs wiping the tears gathering in

that,” I whimper, Zane shaking his

asks, the pain evident in his warm

know how to respond

love h-him?” He asks, his eyes unable to meet

I…am I-I not…Do y-you still think

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