Chapter 628

CHAPTER 128 : MARK ME… AGAIN

*Lena*

“I am coming back,” he said, his voice a whisper.

I swallowed, nodding my head and looking down at the ground.

“Lena.”

“Yeah?” I looked up at him, unable to stop the tears from welling in my eyes. One tear spilled over and trailed down my cheek.

Xander stepped toward me, then knelt before me. He reached up and used his thumb to wipe the tear from my cheek. “This isn’t forever. I’ll come back for you.”

“We’ve said that to each other so many times–”

“And this is the last time, I promise.” He took my hands in his, knitting his fingers around mine. “I promise.”

“What–”

“I don’t know what we’re going to do, or where we’re going to live. But I need to return to Egoren to find that out. It’s going to be okay. We made it through this. We can make it through anything.”

He rose on his knees and wrapped his arms around me. I knew it hurt him to do so; I could feel the way his muscles strained and then trembled around me.

“Xander,” I said into his shoulder. I could feel the welts beneath his shirt as I ran my hands down his back. “You’re hurting–”

“I’m fine,” he replied, one of his hands running up the length of my back and into my hair, which was tousled from sleep. He pulled my head back so I was looking into his eyes. They darkened, a flash of need passing behind them that set a fire burning through my stomach.

He kissed me gently at first, his lips brushing against mine.

“I can give you my blood,” I whispered against his lips.

“I need a lot more of you than that,” he growled, and I felt my body go limp in his arms. His tongue parted my lips, tangling with mine as his grip on my body strengthened. He pulled me into him, almost pulling me off of the cot in the process.

Primal desire took over. I couldn’t remember the last time we were truly alone together. He had me out of my clothes before I could blink, and then he rose to his full height to shed his own.

in my throat as my eye focused on a jagged scar that stretched

His mark was… gone.

touch the barely healed wound, but he grabbed my wrist,

“It doesn’t matter–”

scars that roped around his chest, his arms, and his neck. He’d been ripped apart. My hands trembled as

that much. But these scars would be there forever, a constant reminder of what had

I trailed my fingertips over his skin. “I want

to hurt you again, not after what–what

me,” he said, dropping to his

can’t, not when you’re

gathered my hair in his hand at the nape of my

my mate,” he rasped. “I want your mark on

through me, clouding my judgment. I didn’t want to

cot, which groaned beneath our weight. It wasn’t meant for two people, but Xander didn’t seem to care that it was likely splintering beneath us. He ran his

my core was begging to be touched. I rocked my

me again and again, his lips traveling down my neck and across my collarbone, over the mark he’d left on my

raspy grunt of approval was all I heard before Xander ran his tongue over one of my n*****s.

whispered

name and bit my lower lip as

against my cheek as he

me in one long, swift thrust. My mind was a blur of conflicting emotions, but my body was pleading for

his other hand explored my body, teasing me in all the right places. He knitted that free hand in mine and pinned our hands above my head, dipping his head down to

body take control. But my heart was hammering

again, and it was probably

of his weight was sheltering me. More of him, I needed more of him. All of

as he

the edge into a mind-numbing climax that took

face as he closed his eyes and moaned low in his

tear rolled

***

drifted through the small holes in the roof of the

have been marked twice by the same woman,” he said lightly as he sat down on the cot, smiling

down and grabbed a long-sleeve shirt from his duffle bag, one he’d packed away for his journey. I didn’t object. It smelled like him, and that itself was a small comfort. I could hear the sound of warriors waking up all around us even though the sky was still dark. Xander

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