Filed to story: The Alpha’s Pen Pal Book
“Goodbye, Wesley! Bye, Haven.”
“Bye,” I murmured at the same time as Wes.
He set the phone on the counter, wrapped his arms around me, and just held me. His love and acceptance of me flowed from his end of the bond to mine, warming my heart.
And even though he had already reassured me it wouldn’t change anything, feeling through the bond how his words held true was a different type of reassurance.
“Let’s eat breakfast,” Wesley said, kissing the top of my head.
He grabbed my waist and lifted me onto the counter, then handed me a plate before grabbing his own. I parted my knees so he could stand between them while we ate our breakfast casually in our kitchen.
“Please don’t block me out like that, Sugar Plum,” he said between bites. “It makes my lycan antsy when we can’t feel you. It’s one of the ways we are able to protect you, and if we can’t feel you, we can’t know if you’re in trouble or hurt.”
“I’m sorry,” I replied. “I really didn’t even know I was doing that.”
“You did it yesterday, too. When you left with Nolan. I couldn’t feel you all day.”
His face wrinkled into a little pout, his brows pushing together, and I held in a laugh. My hand reached for his face. “I won’t do it again.”
“Good,” he replied, his frown turning into a smile.
We continued to eat, and his focus moved to his plate as he wolfed down the food I’d made for us. When he’d finished what was on his plate, he moved to the stove to serve himself some more, and I asked the question that had been dancing around in my mind since the phone call with the doctor.
“What’s a mark? Or being marked or whatever?”
Wesley’s back tensed, the muscles shifting and flexing at my words. A flash of nerves hit me, and a glimmer of hesitance with it. He gulped and set his plate down next to the stove, then turned towards me, crossing his arms.
“It’s how we… claim our mates,” he said.
“But what does that mean? Claim your mate? We accepted each other already, right? I’m already your mate.”
“Yes, but the bond isn’t complete until I mark you.”
“Okay, but you still haven’t explained what that means.” I shrugged, setting my plate down on the counter next to me. “I’ve heard you mention it, and the doctor, and even Nolan, but no one has really elaborated on what it is or what it means.”
He blew out a breath, then uncrossed his arms and walked towards me, standing between my legs again. “When we are ready to completely claim our mates, we mark each other, so other wolves know we are unavailable. That we already have a mate.”
He looked down at my neck and reached up to brush his fingers over my scars. “When I mark you, I will bite you, right here,” he murmured, his fingers circling a spot on my neck that sent a shiver all the way down to my toes and tingles straight to my core.
“Does it hurt?” I asked, my voice a breathy whisper from the arousal he was inciting in me.
“I’ll do it when we’re mating.”
“You mean having sex?”
His lips twitched. “Yes.” He chuckled. “From what I understand, the pleasure of being with your mate and being bitten at the crest of your orgasm will outweigh the momentary pain from my canines piercing your flesh.”
My breath caught in my throat, my eyes closed, and my heart stuttered at his description. The idea of being claimed by him like that sent a thrill through me, a thrill like I’d never experienced before.
I wanted that. I wanted to be unquestionably his.
Even the memory of Lennox biting me there in his lycan form didn’t diminish the excitement racing through my soul.
My eyes popped open, and my jaw dropped as I put the pieces together. What he said, and what he did when he attacked me.
“You are mine. You were always meant to be mine, and you will always be mine.”
“Is that… was that what he was doing? When he—when he attacked me and bit me?” I asked, my voice and my hands shaking as I gestured at my neck. “Was he marking me? Claiming me?” I continued, my volume rising, my eyes watering, and my throat tightening.
Wesley’s eyes hardened, and a muscle ticked in his jaw. “Yes, we think that’s what he was trying to do,” he said, his hand tracing the scars again.
Those stupid tears I could no longer control fell out of my eyes, and I struggled to breathe. “But—but I don’t want to be his. I don’t want to have his mark,” I stammered out. “I only want your mark. I only want to be yours.”
I gripped his arms and closed my eyes as I tried to focus on breathing and not sinking into the whirlpool of emotions threatening to drag me down.
I couldn’t be Lennox’s. He’d already tried to claim me, to control me in so many ways when we were together. And if he marked me, if he felt he had some sort of claim or hold on me in that way, then there was no telling what he would do to assert his dominance over me.
“Hey, hey, it’s okay,” he soothed, his hands sliding up to cradle my face. “It didn’t work. He didn’t mark you. We can only do it when we’re in our human form.”
The massive wave of relief I felt at his words pushed me forward into his arms, and he clutched me to his chest, his hands holding the back of my head and my neck, his body swaying and rocking slightly.
“I didn’t tell you about marking or how we do it because I was worried you’d be afraid of me biting you,” he admitted.
“That doesn’t scare me,” I said into his shoulder. “You don’t scare me.”
“Not even a little?” he teased.
“Nope.” I chuckled, and he growled, but his growl quickly morphed into a laugh.
“Good,” he said. “You shouldn’t fear your mate. Although you’re pretty scary when you’re pissed off.”
My head snapped up, and I let out a sharp laugh. His eyes twinkled as he kept chuckling. “I mean it,” he continued. “You didn’t even hesitate when you said you didn’t know if you were going to reject me. I really thought you might!”
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