Second Chance for the Barren Luna (Talia and Jason) novel Chapter 111

Nolan’s POV

I did not mean to keep kissing her, but I couldn't resist her. The moment she leaned in again, I responded without thinking. The taste of wine was faint on her lips. Her hands stayed tight in my shirt, and she pulled me closer a second time. Part of me wanted to stop it there. Another part pushed for more. My wolf was loud in my head, pressing me to tell Talia the truth.

'Tell her,' he urged. 'Tell her what she is to us.'

I forced a breath through my nose and tried to slow everything down. I would not blame her for the Alpha King’s choices, but I had not changed my position. I had not forgotten why I came to Silverfang or what I owed to my father. I would not pretend that any bond erased what stood between me and her family.

She drew back just enough to look at me.

“Will you mark me?” she asked, her voice soft.

I felt my wolf surge forward again, ready to answer for me. I stepped back instead.

“I have things to handle,” I said. The words sounded rough even to me. “I need to go.”

"Nolan?"

I did not give her the chance to continue. I turned and left the garden as quickly as I could. I didn't want to do anything I would regret because I submitted to the pull of the mate bond.

My wolf did not let it go.

'Coward,' he said. 'She accepted us and you chose to run.

'It is just the mate bond. She would've been like this with anyone,' I answered. 'You know it. I know it. I will not let it make my choices for me.'

'And what is wrong with that?' he shot back, 'There is nothing wrong with having a mate.'

'Enough,' I growled.

He kept pressing, throwing every memory at me: the night of her heat, the way she had said my name in the hospital bed, the way she had pulled me down in the garden. He would not stop until I shut him out. I put up the wall I used in battle and forced his voice back into silence. The quiet that followed was necessary. I needed a clear head.

I reached my room to find Marco inside, flipping through a stack of patrol reports he had collected while I was gone. He looked up the moment I came through the door. His eyes focused on my neck.

“What happened to your pendant?” he asked.

“Talia threw it into the pond.”

Marco stared at me in shock. “She what?”

“She pulled it off and threw it.”

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