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……..

back to the day he

him tell me I

had already made this mistake

a marriage with a

around my heart crumbles, Zane making me believe that perhaps a wolf can love a simple human, but I am afraid and I do not know

am not h-him,” he murmurs, cupping my cheeks

little waves of

his lips grazing mine as he

but my breath still hitches in my throat

it would make them real and I would be unable to deny him

repeats, his thumbs wiping the

that,” I whimper, Zane shaking

asks, the pain evident in his

it doesn’t fe-feel that way.” I don’t know how to respond and my silence seems

still love h-him?” He asks,

I-I not…Do y-you

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