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“What do you want? Why did you come back?”
He angled his head to my ear. It was the only thing I had to give him and the last thing I should ever trust him with. “You,” he murmured. “I came back for my mate.”
“Let’s be clear.” She jammed a finger into my chest. “You aren’t my husband.”
I nodded, then added, “Yet.”
“My blood. My body. It belongs to my mate. It belongs to you. Now claim it.”
“Because you are fragile and fleeting and everything I’ve ever asked for. And I am so scared this world will take you from me or break you that I didn’t want to accept what I knew from the moment I met you,”
“I won’t allow my past to rob us of our future. Now you know everything. Now you know why I couldn’t take your virginity. Now you know the risk of accepting the mating bond fully—of consummating our relationship. And maybe I’m selfish and stupid, and you have every right to tell me to go to hell, but I cannot wait three months to take you as my mate. When you walked through that door, it took every ounce of restraint from claiming you against it then and there. I want you now and every minute for the rest of our lives. But one word and I will walk away. I will never ask this sacrifice of you
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“I’ve waited nine hundred years for my life to begin,” he murmured, his lips dancing over mine as he spoke. “I’ve waited nine hundred years for you. I’m going to take my time.”
“And I am yours. I will protect you. I will serve you,” he promised. “You—my mate—above all others. It is my privilege to be your mate. It is my honor to love you.”
“Thea is my equal—if not my better.”
“I chose you,” he repeated in a tone that brooked no further discussion. “I chose you, not just in that moment but for every lifetime. I chose you for eternity—and I will choose you every time.”
“You are mine no matter what. I will never let you go. I will never stop wanting you. Nothing will change that. Our souls are bound together,”
“What does meeting me change?”
“Everything.” I brushed my thumb over her cheek and dragged it down to her swollen lip. “Meeting you changed everything. I didn’t know I was incomplete until I saw you.”
“All I am, I give to you. I swear to be your protector, your lover, your best friend as long as we walk this earth. For over nine hundred years, I sought some meaning in this world, and now I’ve finally found it. You. You are the meaning. You are the reason. And you are the answer. I am honored to be your mate, I am honored to tether my soul to yours, and I am honored to become your husband.”
“Being in your head is almost as good as being in your bed,”
