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“I’ll be right back”

He grabbed a towel fro less than a minute later with a small bowl of water He must’ve filled it up in the shared bathroom down the hall I hadn’t th ason the power his kisses had given me

Taking a seat on the bed next to me, he lifted arreen eyes at the sight of entle as he dipped the towel in the water and began to clean the blood from my chest and stomach When he’d finished his work, he tossed the tohich was now stained red and pink—onto the floor with my ruined tunic

His fingers brushed over the marks Wyatt’s claws had left, and he shook his head in concern

“Think this will scar?”

My skin seemed to buzz where he touched me, and it was hard to keep my breath steady and even as I moved his hand to my other side, to the spot where the piece of rebar had pierced me the year before

“I doubt it This one is hardly visible anymore”

Then I turnedhis hand to the back of my neck where four little freckles marked my skin; one for each of my bonded men The marks had formed the day they’d saved my life

“Reot to me in time”

He made a soft noise in his throat, then lowered his head to kiss each of the scratches Wyatt had left on my body, one after the other As he did, the skin there softened ever so slightly, healing beyond scar tissue

“I reers throughanyone or anything more than I wanted you in that moment”

A surge of power rippled through my body as he kissed me once more

Chapter Ten

My tongue swept into Kingston’sin between could be found between his lips In a way, they could

This man held one of four keys to my soul, and when he kissed me like this, it felt like he had used his key to open a door to a part of me I hadn’t even known existed