Chapter 193
As I’m crossing the threshold of our bedroom, Aubrey stirs in my arms. Her eyelids flutter open, confusion clouding her gaze for a moment before recognition sets in..
“Soren?” she mumbles, her voice thick with sleep. “What are you doing?”
I can’t help the small smile that tugs at my lips. Even in her drowsy state, she’s adorable. “Taking my fiancée to bed,” I reply softly, my eyes never leaving hers.
Aubrey blinks, processing my words. “Fiancée?” she echoes, a mix of surprise and hope in her tone.
“Yes, fiancée, that hasn’t changed, I’m angry but even angry I still love you,” I tell her, gently laying her down on our bed. “Unless you’ve changed your mind about marrying me?”
My heart races as I wait for her response. After everything that’s happened, all the revelations and betrayals, I realize how much I need to hear her say it again. To know that
wants us. despite it all, she still wants this
–
Aubrey reaches up, her fingers grazing my cheek. “Never,” she whispers, her eyes shining with emotion. “I love you, Soren. That hasn’t changed.”
Relief washes over me, but I can’t fully shake the lingering doubts. “You’re not just saying that to get out of trouble?”
“No, Soren. My love for you and Max, my life with you and your family, even your crazy ass brother, that doesn’t need to
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be questioned. Command me if it puts you at ease.” she murmurs. She watches me for a second and the urge to command her answers tugs at me. “You want to don’t you?” I glance away.
“I won’t though.”
“You can,” she whispers. “I would probably want to too, if our roles were reversed,” she admits.
“I don’t need to command you, I don’t want to hurt your despite everything that hasn’t changed, I could never hurt you.” “I clench my teeth knowing how weak that sounds and makes me.
“It’s fine, Soren, I don’t want you to doubt me, do what you need to do, it’s the only way you’ll know for sure.” she yawns completely unfazed by the idea of me commanding her like she just expects and accepts it.
“It’s not the only way,” I tell her and she looks at me and I move to sit beside her on the bed. She goes to shuffle over but I grip her knee wanting her to remain close.
“You can mark me, then I’m going to change you. You’ll never be able to lie to me again,” she goes to say something but I cut her off. “That goes both ways, you want me to believe you, you let me…”
Aubrey launches herself at me, and I barely catch her before feeling her teeth graze my neck. I clutch her closer, my hand moving to her hair feeling her hesitation.
“You marking me will hurt, it will be agonizing.” I warn her knowing she is marking someone whose mark she doesn’t bear. But I want Rhett’s mark gone and the only way I can do
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that is by marking her and changing her first, but I need her to mark me, I need her to choose me over her mate. Hearing my words, I expect her to hesitate when I feel the sharp points of her teeth pierce my neck, she sinks them deeply and groans immediately in agony, her bond fighting her for marking another. Her body recoils, but her teeth only sink deeper and pull her closer, letting my calling flood out trying to take some of her agony from her. But her marking me will also work more in our favor. Rhett will think I am killing her, or have once I have marked her and he feels their bond has severed.
