Dane's Mark by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Dane lay in the cool darkness of Katy’s bed hours later, glaring at the ceiling as he tried to figure out just what the fuck he was doing. From the moment Katy turned and stared at him in the connecting room, everything had seemed off-balance, out of kilter in some way, and he couldn’t make sense of it.

If she were his mate, then he could understand it. Mating Heat, the extreme hungers, amplified sexual needs and emotional roller coaster was hard for both mates. He’d heard Breed mates describe it as both the most natural thing in the world to them, to sheer hell, according to who the Breed was.

There were those he knew who had fought the emotional implications. Having nothing or no one that was theirs, even a parent or sibling, then it would be a shade unfamiliar, he reasoned. Those who had accepted what their mate was to them, longed for that connection and bonding, they swore even the heat was one of the most incredible experiences of their lives.

Over the years, he’d made a point to question mates, to try to understand what they felt and sensed when Mating Heat overtook them. Because despite the hellish knowledge that he’d have to walk away if he suspected Mating Heat was beginning, there was a part of him that wondered. That ached at the knowledge that if a mate did exist for him, then it was something he could never have.

If the world ever learned Leo Vanderale was the first Leo, and that the multinational playboy and heir Dane Vanderale was more than seventy years old, then the blood frenzy would destroy all Breeds. As well as their mates.

The world wasn’t ready for the knowledge of Mating Heat, the age delay or any of the other secrets Breeds kept carefully under wraps. And some of those secrets, even the Breeds weren’t aware of. There were things only Leo knew, and there were few of those secrets that he shared with Dane.

If Dane didn’t know, then he couldn’t be tortured for the information, his father had once told him heavily. It was for his protection that he didn’t reveal secrets that had no bearing on the Breeds today, other than as a weapon that could be used against them.

As he lay there, the erection that hadn’t abated, even after he’d taken Katelyn the second time, was as confusing as anything else that happened in the last week. He should be exhausted, physically drained and ready to sleep for at least a few hours. Instead, he was lying there, telling himself he couldn’t take her again, that he had to allow her to sleep. Meanwhile his cock was still erect, and beneath the head, he could feel a sensation, rather like a band surrounding it. Something he’d never felt before and had never heard of anyone feeling in Mating Heat.

Thank God.

A part of him had been terrified when he’d first seen her again. That scent of

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