My plan to test Fiona resurfaces in my mind, and ignoring Zev’s protesting growls, I reach for her. My hands cup the backs of her arms, pulling her a little closer, needing the distance between us to shrink.
“Let me buy you a house,” I say.
As soon as the words leave my lips, Fiona herks back, her eyes widening almost comically. She stutters, her words coming out in broken syllables until she steps back and takes a deep breath.
“W-what did you say?” She asks, blinking several times like it would clear the confusion. If we were fully mated, I’d have a mind link with Fiona, and I would know exactly what she was thinking right now. I wish I’d sealed the bond before, but the chance that she wouldn’t fully accept me was too much of a deterrent.
Once a mate bond is sealed by the mating b
