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……..

I groan in frustration, thinking back to the day he explained his

hearing him tell me I meant more to him than I had initially

I had already made this mistake

pretty words and jumped into a marriage with a wolf

that perhaps a wolf can love a simple human, but I am afraid and I do not know how to

cupping my cheeks and

ripple across my face like little waves of pleasure,

whispers, his lips grazing mine as he

but my breath still hitches

because it would make

his thumbs wiping the tears

whimper, Zane shaking

pain evident in his

way.” I don’t know how to respond and my silence seems to make him

He asks, his eyes unable

not…Do y-you still think about

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