Page 24 of Their Scarred Mate
Chapter Thirteen
“She feels more comfortablearound us, now.”
“Yes, but it’s not enough.We need to make her accept us before the full moon, or our wolves will go berserk.”
“If that’s the case, I’d much rather be at Uncle’s dungeon than around her.I won’t risk our future together because the mutts couldn’t control themselves.”
“They’d be in control around her.”
“No, they wouldn’t.Not until she bears our mark.And that’s going to be more difficult than anything else.”
They were twins.It was not unheard of for identical twins to share the same mate.But for the mating process to be complete, they had to bite her at the same time.Both of them, while sharing her body.
A nearly impossible task, at the moment, but their wolves couldn’t care less.They were animals.To have their mate so near and not showing the world she was already taken...
A sound made them pause.Like one, they jumped out of bed, their ears attuned to the small sobs from the room in front of theirs.They’d heard Freya lock the door when she entered, but she didn’t know they had the master key.They left their room silently, only to stop immediately.Even through the closed door, they could smell the fear, the despair, emanating from the sleeping body through every pore.
Unlocking the door, they entered the room as swiftly and silently as shadows.
Beneath a pile of blankets lay a sleeping figure.She tossed and turned constantly, opening and closing her fists as if testing her strength, jerking violently in her sleep, as if keeping an intruder away with the force of her kicks.She was moaning softly, despair and fear that etched its way into their skin and carved its way to their soul.With the force of her kicks, she pushed the bedclothes away, her skin glistening with sweat but her eyes tightly closed, still trapped in the nightmare.
Moving in unison, they flanked the bed, and Ciaran stopped abruptly, his eyes fixed on her back.Freya was sleeping in her shirt and shorts, and with her erratic movements it had risen, revealing the scars that cut across the white skin of her back.
“He carved her!”he yelled through the mind link.
He already knew she’d been tortured, but seeing it for the first time...
“Oh, baby girl ...so much pain...”Declan’s whispered voice seemed to calm her.She stopped fidgeting, the wrinkle between her eyebrows disappeared, and she seemed to drift into a deep sleep.Slowly, so as not to wake her up, they both lay down beside her, murmuring words of comfort.The mate bond was already working through her.Despite being human, she could feel it, but her brutal past was in the way.
“I can’t keep my distance anymore.And I won’t.I want my mate, our mate, with us.”
“She needs time.”
“The full moon is upon us.Next week we’ll be in chains like animals so that we don’t scare her, or worse, hurt her.”
“And we will gladly do so, for the opportunity to woo her and mate her.I want forever, Ciaran.Not just now!”
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Nestled between thetwo brothers, oblivious to their inner turmoil, Freya slept peacefully.And she dreamed of what a normal life would be like.
