Keeping Desiree by Sabrina Rue

Author:Sabrina Rue [Rue, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Always the Good Girl LLC
Published: 2018-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Desiree’s feet touched solid ground and she wanted to open her eyes to examine her surroundings but she didn’t. It had been far too long since she’d felt her Mate’s lips on hers outside of a dream state.

His flesh was still healing so she was careful about how she touched him, held him. Titus didn’t have the same hesitation. He picked her up to hold as much of her against him as he could.

Carefully wrapping herself around him, she leaned back to stare into his bright silver eyes. “Titus, I don’t…”

“I’m alright, Desiree. I’m healing faster than anyone believed possible. You gave me more blood than you could afford to lose, Mate.”

“The twins…”

“Drake told me.” Reaching up, he stroked her hair back from her face. “He and Killian confirmed you would have let me drain you. That you almost did so twice until the children arrived to help protect you.”

Holding his cheeks, she brushed her thumbs beneath his eyes. “My life means little now without your presence, Titus.” Inhaling carefully, she explained, “My mother has been without her Mates for years now. There are days she wants to die but she continues on for the sake of the children she bore my Father and Tin.”

“You read her?”

“She doesn’t know. She doesn’t block me when she sleeps. Whenever I’ve been ill or hurt, she’s slept beside me. I wanted to know why she sometimes wept when she was alone. Even absorbing her thoughts and emotions, it was nothing compared to feeling it with my own Mate. Should I lose you, I won’t care about being strong.”

He frowned. “Desiree, Weres don’t…”

“Perhaps most Weres don’t. I’m not like others of my kind. As an empath, I feel the emotions of others deeply, to the center of myself. My own emotions are violent in comparison. Destructive, even.”

Pressing his palm to her neck, he accessed her emotional state during his rescue and she let him.

Eyes wide, his fingers tightened at her nape. “Desiree.”

“When you’re healed, I’ll consume enough of your blood to ensure I follow you into death if you’re taken from me. It’s my right to remain with my Mate. No matter where the journey takes us.”

“If we have children…”

“Our families will guard them, teach them, love them in our absence. Our children will know and understand my choice.” She shook her head slowly. “You are mine and I am yours. For ten millennia, you ached for me, searched for me. In this world or another, you’ll have another ten thousand years to know the wait was worth it.”

Blinking against tears that made the silver of his eyes shimmer, he whispered, “It was worth it, Mate. You’re worth every second.”

Slipping her fingers into his hair, she kissed his lips lightly. “I endured three Heats alone. My body is as strong as I can make it. The rest of my strength will have to come from you. Waiting a year is impossible, Titus. I need you now.”

With a nod, he carried her across a great hall with marble floors and high ceilings that featured a spectacular mural.

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