Lucan's POV“Yours,” Clara whispered, fiddling with the buttons on my shirt. “I am … yours.”Hearing those words leave her mouth felt incredible. I had waited forty-three years to find my mateforty-three long, lonely years. And I wanted so badly to truly claim her, to sink my teeth into her pretty neck and mark her as mine forever.But she was human.She would need time to accept the truth that I was a man who could transform into a feral, savage, violent wolf. She would need even more time to make that change herself. Plenty of humans did not survive their first shift, and I needed my Clara strong enough to endure it. I could not lose her.“You are mine,” I repeated.“Only yours?” she asked again, her breath catching. “Only mine.”“But I am your student.”And she was my mate as well, though I could not tell her that yet.She would not understand. Not yet.“That does not matter to me,” I said, taking her chin in my hand and tilting her face up so those big, beautiful eyes met mine. “I
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