“To answer your eloquent question from before, yes, this shit is very real between us. My beast has claimed you. I have claimed you. You belong to me, Sunshine.” “Until such a time you say I don’t.” We’d played this game before. Shadow’s biceps tensed on either side of my head, and when he lowered himself down, my breath caught in anticipation. “No, Mera,” he murmured. “There’s no such out available to you any longer. You’re mine. End of story or end of life.” I swallowed hard. “My life?” His lips were almost on mine. “No. The life of anyone who attempts to take you from me.”
