CHAPTER 16
“Petree, open your eyes, little one. Open your eyes and look at me.”
Petree hadn’t realized that he not only closed his eyes, but he had them so tightly closed he had a difficult time opening them. Once he pried them open, the first thing he saw was Hron looking at him with so much love and even more concern. “We can stop, my love. It’s okay if you want to wait a bit longer.”
The fear that had encompassed him, left Petree with not just his Viata’s look, but with his words.
His mate was willing to stop with just a word. He was giving the power to claim or not to claim to Petree, and that gave him the power and strength he needed, to do what he had been wanting to do for so long. “No, I want this, Hron. I want to be yours.”
“You are mine, little one. You have been mine since
