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“How does it work?”
“Mating extends a human life-span. I believe you would have lived longer than most anyway, thanks to your unseelie father and whatever other DNA… Anyway, you won’t grow old. Not the way you think you will. It will take a few centuries before I even get to see how you’d look with a touch of gray in this beautiful hair.”
Well, that was…a lot.
His expression hardened. “But more importantly, we need to address this certainty that I’d ever choose another woman. Or that my wolf would tolerate such a thing.”
“Nathaniel…”
“It’s tiring justifying my feelings to the woman who holds my heart in the palm of her hand. If you don’t understand how much I love you by now, then I’ve done something wrong. I’ve messed up somehow. Because I don’t know how to make you see, make youfeel,how much I need you.”
Tears pricked my eyes. “I’m sorry. You haven’t done anything wrong. I don’t want to be this way. I’mnotthis way. I don’t know what’s happening to me.”
His eyes softened. “It’s the initial stages of the mating. There are a lot of…emotions to deal with. Most mated pairs will go somewhere to be alone for the first few months. We haven’t had that chance. I should’ve explained it to you, so the normal jealousy and possessiveness wouldn’t have made you feel like you were going crazy. As soon as this is over, we’ll take some time. We’ll go away for a while.”
“I’d like that,” I whispered, and he cupped my cheek.
“I already know where I’m taking you.” He smiled. But it wasn’t a full smile. He was still…sad.
I didn’t know how to fix what I’d broken.
“What do I do, Nate?”
“Open your side of the bond to me, Evie. You don’t have to keep it open. Just let me in.”
I frowned at that. “What do you mean?”
“You don’t know.” He shoved his hand through his hair. “Of course you don’t. It would be natural for you to shut it down.”
“Explain. Please.”
“Do you remember how you tugged on our bond? When you were being chased by the HFE members?” His eyes flickered light blue at the memory, and I took his hand in mine. “And how you could feel my guilt the other day outside your office?”
“Yes. Of course.”
“Those were examples of you using the bond. Of you opening your side.” He brushed his hand down my cheek. “Close your eyes.”
I complied. He leaned closer, and I inhaled the masculine scent of him, so familiar by now. He smelled like home.
“Good. Now go to that place you went to when you needed me. Picture the bond in your head. What does it look like?”
“Um…” I strained, but I couldn’t see it. Why couldn’t I see it?
“You’re trying too hard. When you reached for me after the car accident, how did it feel?”
I rolled my shoulders and thought back to the moment I realized I was heavily outnumbered. I embraced the terror, but beneath it all was the knowledge that, no matter what happened, Nathaniel would come for me.
He would never leave me. If those men took me, Nathaniel would hunt them to the ends of the earth. And he would find me.
A blistering ache slid up the back of my throat. My breath stuttered, and then hot tears were sliding down my cheeks.
Nathaniel watched me with calm eyes.
“I…I knew I just had to hold on. I didn’t have to fight them alone. You would come.”
“And what did you do?”
“I just reached for you.”
