Chapter Eleven
They both lay beside each other in the bed on their backs, looking up at the ceiling, panting and trying to calm their racing heart rates. He rolled to his side to look at her and smiled. His hand automatically settled on her stomach, and he drew small circles on it. Tracing along her side, he caressed upward until he reached her arm. Sliding up her arm, his finger traced where her mating mark now stood out against her skin. She was now marked for all time as his. Next, she would become his wife and bear his children then no one could ever take her away from him.
She looked up into his eyes and smiled. “You look solemn and worried. Is something wrong?” Alarm quickly clouded her eyes.
“No, sweetheart. I was just thinking that there is no way that anyone could take you away
