Arno’s POV
“Show me everything.” These three words from her lips made joy flood over my mind and soul. All the uneasiness, that started when we first met, was finally gone. It was just a few days but for me, it lasted almost like years. To be so close and to have to withhold. And now she finally accepted the mate bond. The pieces clicked into the right places and all that was left was love her. So I did.
Her fingers slipped from my hair to my neck. Right there, on the sensitive spot where a mating mark would be. The thought of mating ceremony hit me. This wasn’t going to be easy. But that was the problem to solve in the future and I was sure I would find the solution.
Now I studied Marianna’s features in the dim light of the evening. The shadows made her face look mysterious and tempti
