Chapter 71

Jacob POVRelief washed through me as Raven began to kiss me back. I was just hoping that her reaction meant that she understood how much she means to me. That everything that I told her was true. I pulled out of the kiss and placed my forehead on hers.“Princess, we need to slow down before I can’t stop myself. You’re still healing, and the last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it is getting harder and harder to not take you right now. I don’t think you fully understand what being near you does to me.” I said, lifting my head to look into her eyes.Raven slid her hand up over my shoulder to the back of my neck and started playing with my hair. Raven started to pull my lips towards her, but I stopped her. Even though I think that I have convinced Raven that I want her in my life, I can’t let her agree to being with me until I have explained to her what I am. I closed my eyes, slid off the bed and started pacing. Raven moved to sit on the edge of the bed.“Jacob, what’s wrong? What

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Chapter 72

Raven POVThis man loved me. Even with everything that I had gone through, he still loved me. He still wanted me. He wasn’t disgusted by me. And if he could accept me as I was, why would he think that I would want him the way he was? So what if he is a supernatural creature? He has shown me more love and caring than most humans that I have dealt with ever have. Besides, it just makes him even sexier.Jacob let out one of those little growls that I mentioned and deepened the kiss when a rub his hardened length through the fabric of his boxers. For a moment I get a flash of that bastard forcing me to unbuckle his belt and drop to my knees. Jacob must have sensed my hesitation because he quickly pulled away and looked at me with concern.“We don’t have to do anything. I don’t want you to feel as if this is the only reason that I said what I said. I love you, Raven, no matter what.” He pulled me tight against his chest. “The only thing I ask of you is for you to let me hold you. Anything

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Chapter 73

Jacob POVI wiped my chin and made my way onto the bed with Raven, making sure to kiss as much of her beautiful body as I could along the way. With each kiss, the need to mark and claim her permanently grew. I could feel my fangs drop as I reached that sweet spot on her shoulder. That spot that called to my animal side. It took every ounce of willpower that I had to hold back. But I knew that I couldn’t mark her, not yet anyway.Even when she let out that soft, sexy moan, I don’t think she even realized that she did. That moan called to me. I could almost hear her begging for me to mark her, but it had to be instinct. But no matter how much I wanted to, and her body seemed to want it, I would not do that until I had had a chance to explain what it all means to my kind.I sat up and turned my head away so she couldn’t see my fangs. I didn’t want to scare her. Even though she seems to have accepted what I am, she still has seen the full package. I was taking deep breaths, trying to get

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Chapter 74

Raven POVWhen Jacob walked out the door, I fought to hold back the tears from coming again. I hadn’t been able to stop them when he had gone into the bathroom. I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong. I went from scared to angry that he wouldn’t talk to me. I had grabbed the nearest article of clothing, which happened to be Jacob’s T-shirt. His scent was all over it, and for some reason it calmed some of my anger but not all of it.I didn’t know what to expect when Jacob moved the curtain and looked out of the shower at me, but the burning desire that appeared in his eyes was not it. Then his expression changed, and the next thing I knew I was wrapped in his arms, pressed against his chest. He was saying something that I wasn’t quite paying attention to because I was marvelling at the feel of Jacob’s muscular chest pressed to my cheek. How did he expect me to listen to what he was saying when he was holding me like this? But the sound of my stomach growling broke the spell.I fou

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Chapter 75

Jacob POVI shifted back, slipped into my jeans and was pulling my shirt over my head when I heard it. A thump, as if something had hit the front porch. I didn’t even stop to try and figure out what it was because all that mattered was that Raven was there.Reaching the corner of the cabin, I saw Raven lying on the wood of the porch beside the chair she had been sitting in. I climbed back over the railing that Coal had leapt over when he had left. I scooped Raven into my arms and took her inside. Lying her on the couch, I checked her head for any cuts or bumps but found none. My brain frantically tried to figure out what had happened.Was this being caused by something that had happened in the woods? Had there been something wrong with the food that I left her? “Raven, Princess, wake up,” I said, trying to keep my voice calm and failing. When Raven didn’t respond, I grabbed my phone and called Sara, hoping she might have an idea.“Hey, girl, just go talk to…”“Raven collapsed. Meet us

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Chapter 76

Raven POVIt has been three days since I blacked out at the cabin, and I have learned a lot in those three days. When I first woke up in the clinic, I talked with the doctor. He thinks I had a panic attack and passed out when I heard the sounds of bones cracking. He thinks that because I hadn't seen the shift, the sounds triggered flashbacks to when that man shifted and attacked me in the woods. It caused my brain to shut down instead of dealing with it.The day after I left the clinic, Jacob took Emma and me back to the cabin, where he explained more about being a werewolf. He explained that there is a high chance that Emma will grow to have a wolf too. I have never seen her so happy. She fired off question after question that Jacob patiently answered.Watching him with her made all the things that I have been through worth it. Listening to their conversation is when I found out that Emma had always known that there was something different about the man that had us. She explained tha