The Lost Pack (Paige) novel Chapter 180

**Paige’s POV **

For a heartbeat, I forget how to breathe. The faint glow işn’t fading. It’s sinking into him.

Parker’s skin is warm, and the symbol over his heart is unmistakable. It’s a delicate pattern of gold, two shapes intertwining as if they were always meant to fit together.

“Oh god,” I whisper, pulling back. “Parker, I didn’t mean..”

“Paige,” he says gently, catching my hand before I can snatch it away. His fingers curl around mine. “It’s okay.”

“I marked you, and I didn’t even know I could do that. I didn’t even know what I was doing.”

“You didn’t hurt me.”

“That’s not…” I swallow. “Parker… I just put something on you that you didn’t choose.”

“I did choose it.” His voice is so soft I almost miss the tremor beneath it. “I chose you.”

The words hit something deep inside me, something that has been pulled tight all day, stretched thin with fear and guilt and too much power humming under my skin, and it breaks.

I lean in, my forehead pressing against his, and my breath shaky against his mouth. His hand comes up to cradle theback of my neck, warm and steady, and something in me melts so fast it terrifies me.

His lips press against mine, and my whole body shivers.

The kiss deepens gently, coaxing me closer until I’m half on top of him, my hand splayed again over the new mark.

His breath catches when my fingertips trace the glowing outline.

“You feel that?” he whispers.

“Yes,” I breathe.

“Good. Because it’s yours, ‘m yours.”

His hands slide slowly down my sides, and heat curls low in my stomach, warm, steady, and overwhelming.

“Parker…”

“I’ve got you,” he murmurs into my skin as he kisses down the curve of my jaw. “Let me show you.”

The panic from moments ago turns into something else.

Something hungry and tender. Something that pulls me toward him.

I shift closer, brushing my leg against his, and his breath stutters. The reaction sends a warm pulse through me, not power or the Lunarae glow. Just want, and he feels it.

He grips my waist, guiding me fully on top of him with such gentleness that I fall in love with him all over again. ” Come here,” he hums.I do, and the moment my body aligns with his, the bond hums between us, warm and needy.

In a move that he makes look effortless, he rolls us, so his body is over mine. My hands fist in the sheets as he kisses a path along my neck.

I tilt my head, giving him more access. Inviting him closer, letting all my worries bleed into something hotter.

“Parker…” My voice catches when he presses his body to mine, aligning us together. “l… I need..”

He lifts his head, brushing his nose against mine.

“Tell me,” he breathes.

I swallow, my heart pounding

“I need you to stay with me. Keep me here, in this moment.”

His answering smile is slow and devastating.

“I can do that,” he whispers. “For as long as you need.”

His hands slide over me again tenderly, and the room grows warmer, the air thicker, the bond humming louder.

The rest of the world fades.

One of his hands trails lower, stopping at my waistband, and a small, involuntary sound escapes my throat.

He swallows it with his mouth, kissing me deeper. Myfingers slide up the hard lines of his back, pulling him closer, needing the contact as much as I need air.

The mark over his heart shimmers softly between us, barely noticeable now.

“Paige…” he breathes against my lips. “You have no idea what you do to me. Tell me if you want me to stop.

“I don’t,” I breathe.

His hand moves under the hem of my t-shirt, his fingers spreading over the soft skin of my stomach. The touch is barely there, but it lights my nerves on fire. I arch into him without meaning to, and he sucks in a breath.

“Paige,” he breathes, “I am yours. Completely. You can take anything from me. As much as you want. There is nothing you could ask for that I wouldn’t give you.”

I grip his shirt tighter. “Right now, all I want is you.”

That’s all he iteeds. His hand skims up my side, his thumb grazing the underside of my breast, and my entire body answers.

His eyes search mine, dark with something that looks dangerously close to losing control.

“Let me take you apart,” he whispers. “I’ll put you back together in the morning.”

My whole body trembles.

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