Chapter 85

Silver’s POV

Everything happened so quickly that I barely could grasp what was happening. I was eager to get away from everyone and just be with the man that I loved. The man who had fallen in love with me deeper than I could ever imagine. My loving husband and Alpha. I wanted to be with him in more ways than I could count. As he kissed down the nape of my neck, I couldn’t help but shiver from the electricity that coursed through my body from his touch.

As his lips found mine and his tongue glided across my bottom lip, I parted my lips to grant him access. My tongue tangled with his and they danced in a beautiful rhythm until he broke the kiss and started to kiss down my neck again. I moaned at the sensations he provoked across my body.

“Mine!” He spoke in a grave tone that almost didn’t seem like his.

I opened my eyes to look at him, but his face was buried in my neck, licking, kissing, and sucking, every corner of me.

“Forever mine,” he whispered; his tone returning to his normal loving sound just before I felt something sharp piercing my flesh.

My entire body went rigid in his arms when I realized it was his canine.

He just marked me.

He put his mark on me, and he didn’t bother to ask me yet. I started to tremble in his embrace as he deepened his canines. It wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. It actually kind of felt nice; at first, the pain was sharp and made me wince in displeasure. But then I felt a rush of emotions and desires coursing through me and all I wanted was to be with him in the most intimate way possible. It was like something inside of me was craving him and itching to get out.

I knew it had to be the wolf that was locked away inside of me. If what the Moon Goddess told me was true, my wolf wanted to get out and be with her mate. She’s the strange sensation I had been feeling inside of myself this entire time.

She wanted him, and I wanted him… yet I was so infuriated and hurt that he did this without consent that I couldn’t even look at him. I felt sick to my stomach.

He branded me as his and he didn’t think a conversation was worth having.

He retracted his canines and licked the wound until it was closed. Then he peppered soft kisses along my neck and just as he was about to bring his lips to mine once again, I turned my head.

His eyes flew open and for a second, I saw the yellow of his wolf still peering through, but they quickly settled and returned to his normal shade when he saw the look on my face.

“Silver…?”

“Get off me,” I said through my teeth, tears brimming in my eyes and causing my vision to become blurry.

He quickly did as I asked and scrambled off me; he looked confused and also a little hurt.

“I…” he tried to say but I held my hand up. My hand was trembling, but not in a good way. In this kind of way, that means I’m desperately trying to keep myself together and not lose my cool on the man that I love.

“How could you…?” I asked, my voice cracking at the end. I hated myself for sounding weak and broken, but I couldn’t help it.

Why did he think that was okay?

He stared at me for a moment, and then as if he realized what he had done, I could see the realization on his face as he quickly got to his feet and stepped away from the bed.

“I… I’m so sorry, Silver. I didn’t mean to…I just…” he stopped talking, unsure of what he was trying to say.

“You marked me without my consent, Elliot,” I said, wrapping my arms around my body like I was trying to keep myself together. “This was not supposed to happen.”

“I’m sorry,” he breathed, staring at the ground. “But I couldn’t wait another day for you to be mine…”

“I was already yours!” I all but yelled. “I have always been yours. Didn’t you know that already?”

“I wanted everyone to know that you are mine,” he said, his tone low and almost threatening. “I wanted my mark and scent all over you. I can’t explain it, but it’s been driving me crazy…”

I understood what he meant because, in some strange way, it’s been driving me crazy too. I always envisioned the day I would be marked differently. I thought that it would be a mutual discussion, and it would be in the middle of a passionate endeavor. He would mark me, and I would mark him… I would have my wolf, and she would take claim of her mate just like his wolf would take claim over me.

But now that vision was gone because he went ahead and did it without asking me. My wolf couldn’t be a part of this vision because she wasn’t fully here yet. I couldn’t mark him back yet… my wolf was feeling left out and that’s why I was feeling so hurt. I was hurt on her behalf for missing out on something so special.

“Baby, please don’t be mad at me,” he said, lowering himself to his knees in front of me. “I love you so much and I just wanted you to be mine… officially.”

“Was marrying you not enough?”

“Not for my wolf,” he said sharply. “He needed something more. Something more permanent.”

“And you didn’t think discussing that was necessary?” I asked, my voice cracking again as I held back a sob.

He cupped my face with his big and strong hands, forcing me to look at him.

“I should have… I was wrong about that. I’m so sorry, Silver. I swear, I didn’t mean to. I got caught in the moment and then—”

“And then you marked me…” I whispered. “I don’t have a wolf, so I can’t mark you back…”

He raised his brows.

“Is that what you are worried about?” He asked me, seemingly puzzled. “Marking me? You don’t have to mark me back. The bond will still work either way.”

I shook my head as tears spilled from my eyes.

“You don’t understand. I wanted to mark you too, Elliot. I wanted you to be mine just as badly as you wanted me to be yours. I wanted us to be in this together, but you went ahead and did this without me…”

He seemed confused by my words.

“Silver, you don’t have a wolf. You couldn’t mark me even if you wanted to.”

I pulled away from his hands, watching as they dropped to his sides; he looked so defeated and I hated that I was the one putting that look on his face.

“I do have a wolf,” I whispered.

“I’m sorry, what?”

“When I spoke to the Moon Goddess, she told me that I do have a wolf. She’s been kept away because of my magic. It’s too strong for her right now and until I can defeat my brother and inherit his magic, my wolf will remain hidden. But she’s there, Elliot. She’s inside of me. She watched you mark me and she was unable to participate. She is heartbroken and I’m crushed for her…”

He let out a breath I hadn’t known he was holding until I finished speaking. He sat back on his hind legs and looked utterly defeated.

“I… I didn’t know,” he whispered, staring at his hands. “I’m so sorry… I didn’t know…”

“No, you didn’t,” I whispered as more tears fell from my eyes. “Because you didn’t bother to ask me. You chose to do this on your own and not consult me about it first. If you had told me, I would have told you not yet because I wanted to wait for my wolf.”

“Silver…” he croaked.

“I know,” I whispered. “You’re sorry. But that doesn’t change anything.”

I stood up, ready to leave the room, but he stood up quickly, blocking me from the doorway.

“Elliot, let me leave,” I demanded, folding my arms across my chest.

He shook his head.

“No,” he said stubbornly. “I won’t let you leave yet. Not until you hear me out for a second.”

I sighed and relented, a part of me not wanting to leave him anyway.

“I love you, Silver. I will love you regardless of anything. You are my entire world and I’m proud to call you mine. I’m proud to see my mark on your neck. I know you had a different vision for this, and I’m sorry that I did this in the way that I did. But I’m not sorry to claim you. I’m not sorry to brand you as mine. My wolf is content now and that makes me happy. I know your wolf feels left out, but she doesn’t have to because whether she is here or not, she is ours as well. My wolf didn’t just mark you, but her as well. He might not have met her yet, but he’s already in love with her and that’s a crazy feeling for me to have. I just found out she existed and I’m already crazy about her because she is a part of you. So, you can hate me and be angry with me all you want… but I would mark you right here and right now all over again if I could.”

Tears spilled out of my eyes.

“You mean that?” I whispered.

He stepped closer to me, wrapping his arms around my body and holding me close to him.

“Yes,” he told me gently. “I meant that with every fiber of my being. I love you, Silver, and I love your wolf. Please, don’t push us away…”

I wrapped my arms around him and brought my lips to his.

“We love you too,” I whispered. This conversation couldn’t be prolonged any further and I knew now that I was marked, he could feel my every emotion. Eventually, he was going to ask me about what I remembered. He needed to know that he was in danger. “You need to know something.”

He kissed my forehead and gazed down at me.

“Tell me.”

I swallowed the lump in my throat.

“You are in danger, Elliot. My brother is after you and your sister. He wants revenge because your father is the reason his adoptive mother is dead. He’s after revenge.”