“I won’t stop,” I managed. “I won’t stop until you’re better. God, I love you. I’m sorry.”
Marko’s head turned toward me, yet he tried to pull back. I lifted, not able to control the clutching sensation around my heart.
“What are you sorry for?”
His eyes blinked heavily and fear that he might leave me again so soon had me rubbing my hand over his rough cheek to try to keep him awake. I couldn’t lose him. Not yet.
“For this. For not running away from Aetas fast enough. Or …”
“Oh, ma minette. None of this is your fault. This was the only way. I knew that before I even saw the two of you sitting there.” He took a ragged breath, closing his eyes for a few seconds before opening them again. “A sacrifice had to be made in order to save you and our people. I would have done it a million times over. I love you all that much.” He turned to Hunter, a grin pulling at his mouth. “I do believe I have reason to worry when I get better. Do you usually threaten dying men?”
Hunter laughed under his breath. “If it’s appropriate. In this case it was. You killed us that night, too, you know. We thought we lost you for good. You died twice more after Tessa brought you back the first time. She wouldn’t stop, though. None of us would.
“None?”
Marko looked between us and I wiped the wetness from my cheek. “It wasn’t just me who gave you my blood. I lost so much during the first attempt that Hunter, Mistress Price, and Niko mixed theirs during the following two … We were desperate. We were trying everything we could think of while Nelson worked on you.”
Marko’s hands were shaking as he lifted them. Hunter and I slid our palms over his and held to him as he closed his eyes.
“I am indebted to you all.”
“No. What you did can never be repaid. And never repeated,” I stressed. “Hunter and I … we can’t lose you.”
“She’s right. We’re absolutely miserable. Especially me,” Hunter said, throwing me a wink. “I’ve been moping around, bugging the shit out of poor Colin just so I can have someone yell at me when I screw up. It’s bad. You have to get better. I don’t think he can take much more.”
Marko laughed, groaning through the pain. His lids opened and the smile remained. The beauty it possessed took my breath away. Hunter was right. His strength was growing. Marko was going to live. And we were going to be okay. Everything was going to be just as it should.
“I’m really tired. Will both of you stay?”
He was already yawning, trying to pull me down to lay with him. I smiled, looking over to Hunter as he pulled back the covers on Marko’s other side. I rose, doing the same.
“We’re not going anywhere, and there’s nothing that could make us. I should have never of left your side to begin with, but I can promise I’ll never leave it again. I love you.”
The side of Marko’s mouth pulled back and he opened his eyes, searching my face as I made the dress vanish into my nightgown. The moment I curled into his side, I felt his energy surge the smallest amount. He was happy, and he was healing.
“I love you, too … He paused. “I loved you to death, ma minette. I really did. Now I will love both of you for life.”
The End
About the Author
Alaska is an erotic BDSM author who also goes by the pen names Jennifer Salaiz and Jenny May. She lives in Wisconsin...for now. She's a dreamer, and longs for the day when her husband and kids can load up in the car and drive until their hearts’ content. Adventure and discovering new places play a huge role in Alaska's life. It drives her, and feeds the creativity of coming up with new locations for her stories.
Within the last few years, Alaska and her family have drove across the country twice, and also drove the distance from Texas to California three times. Asked, if she could choose one place to permanently settle down, where it would be, Alaska laughed. "Montana, today. Tomorrow, it may be Alaska, again. I go back and forth."
When Alaska’s not dreaming of spontaneously hitting the road to find a new place to write about, she's being a mother and wife. If you're looking to connect with her to learn more, feel free to email her at [email protected], or find her on Facebook. You can also stop by her website jennymayauthor.com.
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