Wolves at the Door by Skye Jones

Author:Skye Jones [Jones, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skye Jones
Published: 2016-05-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“You’re mine, forever.”

Panic slammed into me. Surely, he didn’t mean literally? Perhaps this was the way of their kind, once they’d made love to someone, they considered one another linked somehow? As long as he understood, I wouldn’t actually be his. Not literally.

“We can live here if you like.” He said this with great pride, as if he’d offered me the moon.

“Live? Together?” Ribbons of something akin to outright terror began to wind their way around my heart. Partly because of his words, but partly because some small, and clearly insane, part of me loved to hear them.

“Of course. You are mine; we are mated.”

Mated! He’d used similar phraseology earlier, and I’d simply put it down to meaning making love. Clearly, I’d missed a trick somewhere. I’d let the strange fog of the moment and the magic in the air stop me from truly taking in what he said.

“Erm…what does mated mean, exactly?” I sat up, and as the sheet fell from my breasts, his gaze flickered down and back up, darkening as a wicked smile tugged at his mouth. And as if he’d flicked a switch in me, I instantly wanted him. All over again, as if I didn’t lie there aching and tender from what we’d done only moments before.

I couldn’t allow myself to get lost in him once more, though. Not while he spouted nonsense about mating and owning and me becoming “his.”

“Drew! What is mated?”

He ran a hand through thick hair and seemed to consider the question for a moment. “Mated is when two become one. We merge…for life. You belong to me, and I to you. Although…” He frowned. “This is not ideal. You are human. We need to get help for your burning. Maybe empathines don’t feel it as badly.” He stared off into space for a moment. “But it’s been so long since we had one, so very long, all that remains is myth and legend. Perhaps the burning won’t be as bad for you. Then again, it has been an age since we had any normal human mate with one of us, too. So who really knows?”

Oh, no. There he went with the whole burning thing again, and I really didn’t fancy that. It was immaterial anyway, as no way were we joined for life. I mean, who did that after one encounter?

I needed to let him down and do so gently. In the past, the worst I’d faced came from telling some guy I couldn’t make our second date, yet now I must tell this wolf-man I couldn’t be his mate.

“Well, you see, the thing is…” I trailed off.

“Yes?” He watched me, and I swore amusement danced in his eyes.

“I can’t possibly be your mate. I’ve never even wanted to get married. I want to do research. I’m a scientist.”

“You can do research.” He lifted one arm over his head, all lazy and sated, and for a moment, I could only drink in his utter beauty. “I will come with you.

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