Chapter 69: You Are Mine

Maya Nate fell silent for a moment, his gaze fixated on my neck, his hands clenched in a display of restraint before he released his fists and grasped my jaw, tilting my face to meet his intense gaze. His darkened eyes betrayed the primal instincts of his wolf, yet strangely, I felt no fear, despite the memories of past traumas threatening to surface—I could hear my own cries from the night Maximus and Leonardo forcefully marked me, I could hear myself begging, see the hatred in their eyes and felt all of it as if they were new, yet none of it, literally none of it, not even a fucking fragment of it, seemed to affect me now. All that mattered was the man standing before me, Nathaniel. The man who made me forget the pain of my past simply by being here with me. “I'm going to ask you one last time, Maya…” he whispered, his breath grazing against mine, his lips dangerously close. “Are you sure that you want this? There's no turning back once I mark you. You will be mine, forever. There wi