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 to him than I
already made this
fallen for pretty words and jumped into a marriage with a wolf after a couple
me believe that perhaps a wolf can love a simple human, but I am afraid and I do not
my cheeks and pulling me in for a
sparks ripple across my face like little waves of pleasure, my body
you,” he whispers, his lips grazing mine as he
the second time he has said it, but my
words to him because it would make them
am not h-him,” he repeats, his thumbs wiping
Zane shaking his head
he asks, the pain evident in
don’t know how to respond and my
love h-him?” He asks, his
not…Do y-you still think
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