For a while I stared at Diego, my eyes wide partially in disbelief. "Did I hear you right?" I finally said. "Yes, mi reina," he said, a soft smile on his face. "Your ears didn't play tricks on you. I want to our souls to be bound forever. And I've never been so sure in my life." A tear slipped down my eye before I wiped it off and mirrored his smile. I wrapped my arms around him. "Then mark me, Diego" I breathed, my fingers tangling in the damp nape of his hair, pulling his head down. "Claim me and bind our souls and wolves together. I’m not going anywhere." Without a second’s hesitation, Diego's hand gripped the back of my thigh, lifting me higher against the wall, and he drove into me with a brutal thrust that shattered whatever sanity I had left. "f**k!" I gritted my teeth. "A cu

