(Isla)
We went to our quarters without saying anything about it.
The bond had been building since the corridor and we both knew it and neither of us was pretending otherwise. Not the overwhelming pressure of before the scent marking. Something fuller and more settled than that. The bond knowing what it was now and making itself felt without apology.
I sat on the bed.
Caius stood in the middle of the room and looked at me.
"It's different now," I said.
"Yes," he said.
"Since the scent marking."
"Yes."
I held his gaze. "Is it going to keep feeling like this?"
He crossed to me and sat beside me and the bond moved between us immediately, warm and deep and certain. "It'll keep changing," he said. "Every time something significant happens between us it settles into something new."
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