“You knew what would occur if we mated after I’d been too younger. You knew it would kill me.” Nina propped Zeke’s chin as much as look him within the eye. “You most likely saved my life, Zeke. In trade on your sacrifice, I’ve cursed you.”

“You by no means cursed me, Nina,” he mentioned. “You by no means attacked me or my clan. You by no means made my life hell. You held your self aside, sure, nevertheless it was since you have been defending your self. I don’t blame you for something.”

Not capable of maintain herself again, Nina captured his mouth with blinding depth. Overcome with the sting of his sorrow, she couldn’t resist comforting the person who sat earlier than her, so courageous but so damaged.

Although he was stunned, Zeke eagerly engaged her. Within the subsequent second, he’d locked his muscular arms round her waist and dragged her into his core. They have been two sovereigns who didn’t have to bow to one another, giving in to the voracious starvation that burned so brightly it stung.

Nina’s nails dug into the chiseled musculature of his broad again. It was the primary time she’d misplaced herself to him, and there was nothing prefer it.

Every kiss they shared echoed by way of their mating bond. The twin sensations—of his mouth slanting towards hers and his want igniting their hyperlink—have been sheer bliss. The whole lot in her threatened to interrupt aside, but all the identical, she knew she may depend on the comforting shelter of his embrace to carry her collectively.

When he held her, Nina felt secure. And for a girl with a goal on her again, it was a dizzying sensation.

Feral with their mixed ardour, she abruptly couldn’t stand the barrier of Zeke’s shirt between them. With one well-placed tug, it’d shorn in two and fell to the ground. Her fingers traced the clan marks on his proper pectoral muscle, his clan mark obsidian towards his tanned pores and skin. The contact earned her a sensual growl, a masculine rumble that echoed the same purr from her.

Drunk on the texture of him beneath her fingertips, she nipped at his backside lip, then trailed kisses down the corded ridge of his neck and the road of his shoulder.

She realized it was all too possessive, that her mating instincts have been propelling her in direction of finishing the bond, and that getting any nearer was harmful.

Zeke raked his fingers down her again earlier than yanking her even nearer to him. Breathless, hungry, and wild with their want for the opposite, they rode the punch of energy that clung to their hyperlink. Although it had strengthened with their proximity, Nina couldn’t yield to it.

The mating bond between them needed to stay unfinalized till the query of her survival was answered. Buried deep, the reality remained unsaid: Zeke would settle for if she yielded to their union.

The tang of blood turned heady, lacing the air with the iron-rich aroma. Groaning, Nina pulled away from her mate to re-examine the wound he’d sustained on her behalf.

Although the stitches had held, it’d began bleeding once more. With out asking, she leaned ahead and delicately traced her tongue alongside the bloodied portion of his tricep.

A shudder ran by way of him. Zeke’s telekinetic energy drew the curtains closed, swathing them in darkness. His hand clasped over hers, tugging her towards the mattress.

“Let me maintain you, mon cœur,” got here his supply, a velvety purr.

When she sank into the coolness of the covers, he slid in behind her. His heat shaped a protecting cocoon round her, and it felt like coming house.

Chapter Twenty-Three

One in all his individuals was deathly wounded.

Yanking himself from a restful sleep beside his mate, Zeke despatched Kaien a telepathic shout of warning. He teleported straight into his injured clansman’s house in Osiris territory. Earlier than he’d even develop into corporeal, he manifested his dagger in his hand, and engaged his Blunt to make sure he wasn’t detectable.

Somebody had infiltrated his territory—a Protect—and had attacked one in every of his individuals whereas they slept. The room was small, with a single twin mattress and a nightstand alongside one wall. The intruder stood over Zeke’s clansman, bloody dagger poised to strike once more.

Soundless, Zeke caught the intruder unaware, slicing his jugular from behind. Blood sprayed because the Raeth collapsed earlier than him, and with one other blow—this one to the center—the intruder was useless.

Zeke’s consideration shifted to the person gasping in mattress. Tzuriel and Hemin arrived solely moments after he did, the latter instantly pulsing therapeutic vitality into the affected person. Tzuriel was already hovering over the attacker’s physique, trying to find a pulse.

Zeke couldn’t breathe a sigh of aid but, not when Michael was nonetheless in bother. He knelt beside the stricken man, funneling vitality by way of their bond to hurry his price of restoration.

Hemin was already answering the unstated query. “It is painful, however he’ll be superb. It wasn’t a merjha.”

Zeke gave him a clipped nod and reassured Michael, “We’re right here. We’re not leaving you.” Over his shoulder, he mentioned, “Tzuriel, examine the intruder for a clan mark.”

Closing his eyes, Michael allowed the healer to push him into slumber solely a minute later.

As Zeke continued to pour vitality into the wounded man, he rocked again on his haunches. Detesting the truth that one in every of his clansmen had been attacked, he solid out his psychic presents and scanned each sq. inch of his territory.

The whole lot was at it ought to have been. The psychic signatures of his individuals have been acquainted and comforting, and nobody else was damage. The one exception to the established order remained the void alongside the periphery of his territory, however the ley line was quiet. Nothing would point out it’d modified form or dimension within the time he’d been gone, and he knew his individuals had stored an eye fixed on it.

Reeling again in his psychic senses, he opened his eyes to seek out that Michael was totally healed—and he was surrounded by his lieutenants.

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