♔Tristen (P.O.V)
“What did you decide?” I ask, pushing Eustacia away gently, fear and anxiety rushing over my body.
Is she going to leave me?
I shouldn’t have suggested it.
“Wolf,” she barked at me softly, her eyes meeting mine. In that split second, she licked the right side of my cheek and burrowed her head in my chest.
Relief sizzled the anxiety and fear bubbling up inside my stomach.
“You’re staying,” I sigh as tears feel my eyes once again.
I wrap my arms around her petite figure and pull her onto my lap. With sheer happiness, I squeeze my mate tightly, not letting her go. The stinging pain of my injured hand pulses through it, but I could care less. She’s staying!
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I held her for a solid fifteen minutes before she barked at me, telling me to let her go. I expected her to
