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

him tell me I meant more

I had already made

for pretty words and jumped into a marriage

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

cupping my cheeks and pulling me in for a tender

little waves of pleasure,

love you,” he whispers, his lips grazing

second time he has said it, but my breath still

would make them real and I would be unable

repeats, his thumbs wiping the

Zane shaking his head at

the pain evident in his warm

don’t know how to respond and my silence seems to make him

asks, his eyes unable

y-you

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