Take Me Once, I'll Bleed You Twice novel Chapter 50

“Are you in pain?” He asked, deciding if best to say something.

“I… don’t know,” she replied after a few seconds. “My shoulder started burning and it felt like I was going to be sick for a second there

Well, that wasn’t good. If the mate bond made it so contact with him would elicit that sort of response, Riaghaire would need to deal with the Alpha rather than later. How was he to court someone when, should things progress, that damn mark would react in such a way?

“That may be the mate bond,” he informed the human, deciding it best to voice his thoughts on the matter. “I always believed it marke another but it may be more… complex than that.”

“…are you telling me…” she began, voice low but as sharp as a well honed blade, “that if I ever want to be with… literally anyone thr

will happen?”

“It is possible. And the more the bond solidifies, the stronger the reaction will become.”

“Excuse me,” she muttered, brushing by Riaghaire on her way out of the bathroom and down the hall. He followed a few steps behind as she turned m open living space and stopped behind the sofa. Leaning forward, she grabbed a pillow, held it against her face, and proceeded to scream into it

The vampire watched, eyes wide, wondering what the human was hoping to accomplish and why. It didn’t seem like a useful endeavour to her current situation, even if he kind of understood the feeling. He, too, wanted to scream. Well, actually, he wanted to tear the beast’s head off, but that wasa available option at the moment.

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When she finished, Beatrice dropped the pillow back onto the sofa and let out a deep breath. “Okay. I’m good now.”

“…did that… help?”

“Sometimes you just need a good scream,” she shrugged, not looking back at him. He could tell by her posture she was unhappy with there was little he could do to change that. “And screaming into a pillow won’t make the neighbours think someone’s gelling Mardek

Ah, that made sense. It wasn’t something Riaghaire would have thought of doing

he would have simply velled without a thing

The human let out a sigh as she finally turned around and looked at him. “So, you’ll stick around by now!

Had he not made himself perfectly clear? Riaghaire didn’t understand her need to vesty but chose not to your velo my debt is repaid, I will stand at your side, greine”

Beatrice frowned at him

You’ve called me that a low this now What is

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the if any thing

He would tell her the truth another day, when he had confed her to long enough that such things for

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