Chapter 25

Jasper Hartford

I am a wimp, pure and simple. I can’t bring myself to even think about going against Lizzy’s wishes so marking her without consent is completely out of the question. That has made things very difficult for me with my family.

Both my mom and my dad are now pushing me to mark her and they aren’t being anything even close to subtle about it. Dinner last night was apparently just the start of it. This morning over breakfast my mom talked about nothing other than how amazing being marked made sex while Lizzy looked as though she was going to throw up into her cereal.

In the end, I only managed to get her to stop by getting my father involved. I promised I would talk to Lizzy about the subject again as long as they gave us a little bit of space. My mom didn’t like the idea of leaving something so important in my hands so my dad almost had to drag her out of the room.

“What is going on with your parents?” Lizzy asked.

“I might have mentioned that I was struggling to keep