Shadow Mated (Ouachita Mountain Shifter Book 5) by P. Jameson

Author:P. Jameson [Jameson, P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paper Zombie Press
Published: 2016-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Gash laid still as possible, listening to Bailey’s soft snore. She definitely needed the rest after what they’d done. A grin lifted his cheeks. Oh, the things he’d done to her… it hardly seemed real. But the claw marks down her back were proof he wasn’t dreaming.

He’d double clawed her. Two broad slashes stretched from each shoulder to the opposite hip to form an X across her back.

X marks the spot.

She was his. He was mated. To the kindest, sweetest female. He couldn’t wait to make her a mother.

Careful, so he wouldn’t wake her, he traced the line of her back with his fingertips. She lay on her side, and her profile formed several mountains and valleys. Gash loved every single one. Every inch of her belonged to him, and he planned on worshipping her at any foreseeable opportunity.

He fingered her mating mark. It was huge, just like he promised. And wicked red now, but it would heal beautifully.

Gash swallowed the knot in his throat, but it didn’t stop the feeling growing in his chest. It was gratitude and relief and crippling fear all rolled into one. He wanted to tell someone—the fates, the creator, hell, maybe even God above if he existed—thank you.

Thames believed in God. Wanted a chapel to pray in. Maybe his brother had a good laugh at that, but lying here next to Bailey, Gash couldn’t blame the guy for believing. There had to be a higher power. How else was it possible for someone who’d done so much wrong to be given such a sweet gift?

Tears wet his eyes and he didn’t bother wiping them away.

What the hell could it hurt to believe? He had to tell someone, and why not Thames’s god. No one else would understand how much this meant to him.

“Thank you,” he whispered quiet enough not to wake her. The gratitude he felt couldn’t be squashed into those two words, but they’d have to do. “Now, if you don’t mind. Help me keep her safe.”

There. That felt better.

Gash pulled the sheet over them and pressed his body against hers, careful not to put pressure on her fresh mark. Feeling more peaceful than he had in ages, he drifted to sleep.

***

“One hundred and two, one hundred and three, one hundred and four…”

Adira rolled her eyes, grappling for patience. Nastia’s rock counting problem was going to be a challenge here in the Ouachitas. There were simply too many tempting little orbs for her to find.

They rounded a bend in the path, and she wondered how much farther until they reached the lodge. The kind man in town had guided them this way. Even brought them to the bottom of the hill. Lake Haven Lodge was the only thing at the end of this road, he’d said. Yet, they’d been walking for what seemed like hours and hadn’t arrived yet.

She glanced up to find the moon, but it hadn’t moved much from the last time she’d checked. Okay, so maybe it hadn’t been hours.

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