Bastien‘s POV
“You were about to mark me!”
I stumble backward, dazed as Selene’s words pierce through the fog of lust. She was right, I was about to mark her.
My instincts had completely taken over, Axel was urging me to mark her as he had a thousand times before, but my old self restraint is long gone. I thought my mate was dead for three years, kissing her again was too much too resist. If I mark her, make that searing, claiming bite that will forever tie her to me and announce to the world that she belongs to me, she’d never be able to run again.
Even now, knowing how wrong it would be to mark her without her consent, I have to admit the idea is tempting. I watch my mate obsessively, taking in every facet of her expression and demeanor. She’s so beautiful with her wolf alight in her eyes, a wolf that still seeks mine despite Selene’s objections.
I cannot hear the call myself, but Axel certainly can, She’s calling me, He insists, she needs the mark just as much as we do. She’s in pain without it.
I study Selene carefully, reading anger and longing in her stunning features much more strongly than any fear or rejection. I know Axel is right just as certainly as I know the human part of Selene has no intention of giving me permission to mark her. So who should get to decide, the woman, or her wolf?
Icock my head to the side, the scent of Selene’s arousal still heavy in the air. “Tell me not to.” I order huskily.
“What?” Selene falters, taking a step back despite the fact that I haven’t moved an inch.
“If you don’t want me to mark you,” I instruct slowly, “Tell me not to tell your wolf to stop begging mine for the mark.”
She isn’t!” Selene insists
little wolf.” I scold, some of my pain and rage over her betrayal bleeding into
looking like she might be on the verge of
badly as you do. Axel rumbles. This is one of those times that having a wolf is downright inconvenient. He’s ruled by instinct, and instinct overpowers logic ten to one. Still, I can’t help but feel uncertain when
skittish and overwhelmed with feelings she’s beside herself. Every wave of agitated
tuck her into the thick covers and drop a string of kisses on her sweet-smelling head, feeling a rush of warmth when she smiles and coos in her
I heard you the first hundred times. I
is pacing, appearing as if she’d had to exert all her effort not to follow me. She’s wringing her hands, but when I move towards her, her eyes don’t glance back to the room where I
you.” I say again, “Make me believe
rejecting me now is a lot more difficult
overestimated the amount of time
than was necessary but unable to hold back. The steady pound of cascading water fills the room, and I listen for a moment, deciding that the distance and
her body into mine, “Last chance, baby.” I tell
complicated to rise to the surface. Emotion clouds her lust-dilated pupils, and with a moan
Selene’s POV
my head, wrists trapped in one of Bastien’s massive hands. A rumble of pure male satisfaction reverberates through the shower stall as he sinks his fingers between my thighs and
the pleasure
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