Soul-Mate (Immortal Love 1) by Anna Santos

Author:Anna Santos [Santos, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2015-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

SHANE

HAVING ANNABEL BITE ME was erotic beyond words. We were still in the bathtub, kissing but mostly talking. I still needed to bite her and complete the mating bond, but I had time for that. My blood was making her say the most adorable things. Mate blood will do that. It will also make her feel connected and more vulnerable to my questions. I didn’t want to use that to get information from her, but I was feeling extremely happy since she had agreed to complete our bond by marking each other.

I had that uncontrollable fear of being dumped and forgotten when her time here ended. She wasn’t giving any hint about whether she would stay for the next year or leave the school and me in the process. Especially because she had a whole different life outside of her teaching career. I doubted that teaching was even her real job; maybe it was just a cover-up job or hobby. So hearing from her that she wanted to be marked was like the best news I’d ever gotten in my life, up to that precise moment. However, I needed her to be sure about it.

“Anna, when I mark you, we will be connected forever. I will always know where you are, and you will be able to talk to me and access my thoughts, memories, and feelings. Are you sure you want this?”

“Yes,” she agreed. “I couldn’t reach you today. I almost went mad. I want to know where you are, always. I’ve missed you terribly!”

“I’ve missed you, too.”

“Where were you?” she inquired. Her breathing was faster; she was probably revisiting the fear she’d felt when she wasn’t able to reach and talk to me.

“I was in a meeting with the king. Sorry about that.”

“The guys said you were away all weekend! Did the meeting take two days?”

“You were away all weekend, too,” I reminded her, making it clear that she had no right to question me about my disappearance when she had had her own secret escape and wouldn’t talk about it.

She pulled her eyes from mine and bit her bottom lip. She understood me perfectly. She knew she had no right to ask me when she wouldn’t tell me what she was doing, herself. Her hand caressed my shoulder pensively.

“Well…” She broke the silence after breathing deeply. “I went to talk to my cousin.”

I waited patiently for her to continue. That wasn’t useful information; more like an excuse.

“I went to tell him,” she added. The vibration on her voice gave away her anxiety.

I frowned, curious about what she’d told him. I remembered they were having some kind of discussion, and he wasn’t happy about it. Was the discussion about me? Did she tell him about me? And did they use to date? They seemed—close. Was she breaking off with him? She had told me that she wasn’t in a relationship when we started ours, and also that she and her cousin weren’t romantically involved. Had she lied? I was getting paranoid.

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