Under the light of the full moon they ran together. He’d pursued her like the prey she was to him. Just when he thought he’d caught her, Rebecca would dodge out of his reach, sending him into a tree or over grown bush. When the moon sat low it he sky, they found themselves at the base of the falls, near the edge of the deep pool.
Exhausted, Rebecca’s wolf receded, leaving her lying naked along the bank beside him. Following suit, he allowed his ecstatic wolf to retreat as well before pulling her against his pounding heart.
Relaxing against the soft grass beneath her, Rebecca shoved a hand through her hair, sending the waves of soft brown hair fanning across the ground. “You lied to me.” She mumbled sleepily.
Looking down at her in confusion, he shook his head. “I don’t understand. What did I lie about?”
Jabbing her thumb over her shoulder at the water fall and the deep pool, she raised an accusing brow at him. “You said the only way down here was to jump. Apparently there was another way.”
Smirking, he stretched out on his back with a sigh. “I suppose I did.”
Moving onto her stomach, she braced an arm over his chest as she leaned closer to him. “That will be stopping, Eric.” she commanded with a firm voice. “You can’t lie to me anymore and that includes keeping things from me.”
“How will our life be interesting if you know everything?” he teased with a blank look.
Skimming her lips over his, she rose up to smirk down at him. “I have ways to keep plenty of interesting things in our lives. Which from what I remember, is going to be a long time.”
Covering her hand that rested over his chest, he leaned up to place a slow, deliberate kiss on her lips. “It will never be long enough, my love.”
Rebecca smiled warmly down at him, before lowering her head to press against his chest. For a moment they simply laid there, holding each other. Eric wanted to remember everything about this moment for when he was grey and much wrinkly version of his current self. He would never be happier than he was in this moment.
He felt Rebecca shift away from him with a gasp. “Eric, why the hell is your chest glowing?”
Snapping his eyes open, he looked down to see the binding thread emerging from his chest. With his heart full of joy at a second chance to fully claim her, he sought out her gaze. She started as if hypnotized at the rippling thread appearing like mist before her eyes.
“What is it?”
“It is the binding thread; it only emerges for a true mate. The first time mine sought you, I denied it. This time, it is your choice. Do you accept me, Rebecca? As your true mate?”
Her lips parted to answer, but her hand flew to her chest as she sat fully up. “My chest,” she gasped. “It feels like it’s on fire.” Letting her hand fall, Eric watched in wonder as bright light emerged from the center of Rebecca’s chest, her own binding thread.
Both of them stared at each other in wonder as the two threads coiled around each other until the threads became as one. With an explosion of heat, the threads disappeared, leaving both of them gasping at each other at what they had just seen. Rebecca was the first to recover, crawling over him; she straddled his hips to lean over his chest. Cupping the edges of his strong jaw, she lifted his face slightly as her lips claimed his. Her kiss held heat, passion and need. Need for her mate, her true mate.
“You have some explaining to do, Eric.” she moaned out against his mouth as his hands reached up to grip her hips. Rolling them until their positions were reversed, Eric grinned down at her after breaking away from her siren lips.
“Later.”
With a nod, she agreed. “Later.” She whispered as his lips crashed down over hers.
Eric sighed with contentment against her mouth. Nothing would take her from him now. She was his! More importantly, she had claimed him as well. Not because she was his mate, but because she loved him.
The world fell away in that moment. The night stilled around them. The fate’s giving them that moment of perfection. Troubles of tomorrow would continue to come. War was brewing, death and destruction would come to both sides. But for some reason the nagging fear of the future held no power for Eric’s mind as it once had. He didn’t know what future they would be facing in the morning, but he did know that as long as Rebecca was by his side, nothing would stop him or tear him from her. His Rebecca.
His true mate.
His heart.
His salvation.
Author’s Note
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank each and every one of you that purchased this book. I hope you enjoyed this book as much as I did writing it.
When I first began my journey of writing, “Hunger of the Heart” actually came before the Grizzly Affairs series was even thought of. After only getting to the fifth chapter, I put the beginning of this novel away for two years and nearly forgot about it.
With the help of my overactive muse and the release of the romance and suspense filled stories of the Grizzly Affairs series, I was finally able to share Eric and Rebecca’s story.
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