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“What if I wanted you to help me break the bond with Amos? I can’t go around feeling him all the time. I can’t handle it. I want the bond gone.”
“Is that really what you want?”
“Well, you definitely made me think it’s possible with your kiss. I know a surefire way to break the bond is to make another one. You will help me, won’t you?”
“I love you, Eliza, of course I will break the bond with you and Amos by making our own.” He said the words slowly and with revere.
“Are you sure you’re okay with this, Patrick? I know you have always been there for me, but maybe I’ve asked too much this time? I understand that this is a lot.” I was starting to feel unsure about it all.
Patrick pulled me in for another kiss, and I could feel his hard body pressed against me. We had hugged a hundred times before, but there was definitely something different this time. He was so well-built, so hard in all the right places. It made me wonder why I had never looked at Patrick that way before. Maybe it was because he was friends with my dad and I’d known him forever, or because he was so much older than me.
The way he kissed me was so different than what I had happily become accustomed to. Calvin and Eddie were downright intense. If Patrick’s kiss was any indication, he was going to bring me to the edge of pleasure and slowly hang me over the edge until I begged.
I knew there was a ritual that had to be done for the new bond, and I was extremely ready for Patrick and our new relationship. I would have probably taken the mating part before the bonding, if he would have been interested.
“The moon is right tonight, if you’re really ready.”
There was a lot going on, our enemy was lurking in the shadows, but I needed to break this bond so Amos couldn’t track me.
Patrick said he had to go do a couple of things. I didn’t know what it was that he had to do, but we agreed to meet back at the bunkhouse in half an hour and go from there. The bunkhouse wasn’t a proper place to do the bonding ceremony, and call me crazy, but I didn’t want anyone coming in to stop it. There was also the fact that Eddie and Calvin were going to be mad at me. We weren’t official, but it felt official. What I was doing felt like a deceit, and I didn’t like it at all. It wasn’t going to change that I was going to do it, but I didn’t like the secrecy.
14
PATRICK
Iwas nervous. Me, bonding with Eliza. For this to be something that she asked me to do, that was even crazier.
It was not something I thought would ever be possible, and I wondered how I could ever prepare myself for something like this. Right or wrong, my desire for her was strong.
I thought she would have chosen one of the two men she was already with. They wanted me to know that they had claimed her, so why was I asked to help her break her bond? It was one of those situations where I was just going to go with it, even if it didn’t really make any sense. It was what I wanted, so why question it?
When I got back to the bunkhouse, Eliza was ready. She looked beautiful. Young, vibrant, and definitely off limits. Why was that combination so damn delicious?
“Are you okay?” she asked me.
“Why do you ask?”
She shrugged. “You look nervous.”
“I’m fine,” I told her. But I didn’t feel fine. I was so damn nervous that she would change her mind, that I would change my mind, that her boyfriends would come back and try to break us up. There were so many things that could ruin the moment. I didn’t want that.
“Why don’t we get out of here? I saw a place that would be perfect a few miles to the east. Do you want to drive or walk?”
* * *
The spot washigh up on the ridge, and it was a great place because of the power I could feel there. I remembered the ceremony because I’d wanted to be bonded for a long time. I didn’t think it would be like this. And I definitely never thought that it would be to Eliza.
“This place is perfect,” she said. “What do we do now? Do I just start taking my clothes off?”
Before I could answer, she started doing just that, and I got an eye full. I knew that Eliza was beautiful, but she was on a whole other level naked.
She didn’t cover up, just stood there, letting me admire her and loving every minute of it. She wasn’t shy, not really. She was watching me, waiting for me to make a move. I was shocked, standing there trying to figure out if what I saw in front of me was real or not.
I snapped out of it and began the ritual. “I take you, Eliza, as my mate, my one true mate that I will protect and take care of for all the days of my life. I will cherish you until I die, and then later on in the next world too.”
“What’s wrong,” I asked when Eliza suddenly looked so sad.
“I didn’t think I was ever going to hear those words, you know, because I had been rejected.”
