Chapter 43

ELLE

“How are you doing, darling?” Kade asked me once we made it back to the bedroom.

His arms wrapped around my waist, pulling my back flush with his front. I could feel every hard muscle pressing against my back while warmth and sparks coursed through me. It was a delicious current that helped push away the pain from earlier. The knowledge of what happened would never leave me, but I had been able to dim the pain a bit. Time would begin to heal it though. That was something I learned in life.

“A little better,” I admitted, leaning back to look up at my mate.

I had filled Kade in via mindlink about what triggered me off. He had said that I was a better person than him because he would have just ripped his body apart piece by piece until his final breath.

“Are you really giving him ten hours?” he asked.

My mate’s light touches caressed my sides, invigorating my ever-present desire for the things that only he could do to me. His warm hand splayed across my stomach underneath my