Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 43296 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 216(@200wpm)___ 173(@250wpm)___ 144(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 43296 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 216(@200wpm)___ 173(@250wpm)___ 144(@300wpm)
She could only imagine what his thoughts were. He may set her blood on fire with just a look, as did Genet and Raimi, but she couldn’t be theirs ever. And that was exactly what his expression spoke of.
“Fallina.” His gaze dipped down to her lips, and she couldn’t help but lick them.
This wasn’t her, to melt for a male with just a look, to want Erak’s hands on her when she should be running away from the possessive gleam in his eyes.
“You’re so strong yet so fragile.” Erak’s voice was low, his eyes still on her mouth. “You’re ours, Luna.”
She looked over at Raimi and Genet, and at least, they had the decency to look wary, like they knew Erak was going too far. “I am not a possession.”
One of his dark eyebrows arched at the last part. She meant to sound fierce, but her voice had come out soft and submissive.
“I never claimed you to be a possession. I told you… you’re our mate, and that is not something we take lightly.” He let his gaze travel up and down her body. “We tended to you because it was our desire, need, and duty as your mates to care for you, and we couldn’t have done it any other way.” He took a determined step toward her. “We will watch over you, care for you, and treat you like the treasure you are.” He lifted his hand and brushed the very tip of his finger along her bare shoulder.
Electricity raced through her veins at that very gentle touch. “Luna, tell me what I want to hear. Surrender this one thing to me, and I promise you, we all do, that everything will be okay. Just give us what we want, what we gave, little one.”
She couldn’t hear past the pounding in her ears. “And what is it you want?”
He stared into her eyes, and she watched in awe as the violet irises appeared to spark to life, becoming a rare crystal of intensity and power.
“Your submission. Your acceptance. But most of all... your trust.” His words could have been so sweet, and she would have melted right then over them.
But the way he said them, as if he knew she would just accept what they said, didn’t set well with her.
“I just escaped from a life of servitude and don’t have any intentions of belonging to anyone but myself.”
The bastard smirked at her. Actually smirked. He took a step back, and she couldn’t help how her eyes widened when she saw how aroused he was.
His erection was enormous as it pressed against his leather pants. She had just told him she didn’t belong to anyone, yet he was still aroused.
“Erak, you’re pushing her. Ease up, brother.” Genet’s voice was calm, but Erak just grinned broader.
“Genet, I am what I am, and I am who I am. And the sooner our mate realizes that the better.”
“Erak, she is still healing, and the things you’re saying—” Erak held up his hand and stopped Raimi from finishing. “Luna, is what I’m saying making you uncomfortable?”
Was it? She was uncomfortable, but it wasn’t because he was directing those statements at her but because she was feeling her body betray her from hearing them.
The corner of his mouth kicked up, and she knew she wouldn’t have to answer because he knew.
“Luna, your body recognizes that you were born to be our mate, even if your mind is having trouble realizing that right now.”
He smiled, his straight, white teeth reminding her of the predators their species truly were.
“And when it comes to my mate standing right before me, her body knowing what it wants but her mind being stubborn, I will do everything in my power to make you realize and understand what you want here.” He placed a large hand on her chest, above over her heart.
Luna was so stunned by his actions. All she could do was stand there and stare at him.
“Right now, your heart beats wildly because you can sense who and what we are to you.” He leaned in ever so slightly until their lips were an inch from each other. “And you can run from anything you want but never from us. You are our mate.” His gaze lowered, so he was staring at her mouth. “And when the time comes where you come to us, accepting what is inevitable, it will be the sweetest of all things.”
Luna held her head higher and stared Erak in the eye. Shame and desire warred within her, and self-disgust that she was soaked between her thighs moved inside of her like another entity.
They could smell it—smell how much she wanted them even though she was furious—and humiliated her. His cockiness was astounding.
“I could never be yours, not in the way you want me to be.” Her voice was soft, but she kept her words clear and to the point.