Kael POV
Her words wash over me. She loves me.
"Mark her. Mate her. Make her ours," Atlas growls.
"First you know that father will insist on the traditional marking at our ceremony. Second, we haven't even explained how the marking works. I want both those things as much as you do, but we can't pressure her Atlas."
He whimpers because he knows I'm right.
"Should I be concerned when you zone out like that? I just told you I love you for the first time, and you looked like you were in a trance. I thought I'd broke you for a minute," she says. Despite her teasing, I can hear the anxiousness in her voice.
This time I take her face in both my hands.
"I'm sorry I should have told you how tremendously happy it makes me to hear those words from you. You didn't break me. In fact, I fee
