All Chapters of Marked In the Dark,Married In Disguise : Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

Neither of us moved.His hand stayed on top of mine. It was big and warm and rough, and it was shaking. I could feel every small tremble in his fingers. The car rolled on down the road, and the pine trees went past the windows, and inside that car the whole world had gone quiet.My mark was beating so hard I thought it would come out through my skin. Thump. Thump. Thump. Under my collar, the moonstone was so cold it hurt.I couldn't look up at him. I was too afraid of what I would see in his face. So I looked at our hands instead. His on top. Mine underneath. Like they belonged that way.Then he pulled his hand away.He did it fast, the way you pull your hand back from a hot stove. He sat back against his door and looked down at his own fingers. He opened them. He closed them into a fist. He opened them again."Did you…" he started.He stopped.I held my breath. *Don't ask me,* I begged in my head. *Please don't ask me if I felt it. Rule seven. I can't lie to you, and I can't tell you

Dorian let go of my wrist like it had burned him.He turned around slowly. Kael was standing at the end of the garden path, maybe twenty steps away. He was still in his dark riding clothes, with mud on his boots and the wind pulling at his black hair. He must have come straight from hunting the rogues.He didn't move. He didn't shout. He just stood there and looked at Dorian.I had seen men afraid before. I had seen my father sweat in the square. I had seen the rogues at the spring turn and run. But I had never seen anything like the way Dorian looked at that moment. His face went grey. His hands started to shake. He took one step back, and his heel hit the low stone wall."Alpha," he said. His voice came out thin. "I was only saying hello. Mira and I are old friends.""I heard you," Kael said quietly. "I have very good ears."My heart stopped. *How much did he hear? Goddess, how much?*But Kael's eyes didn't move to me. They stayed on Dorian."I heard a man who was rejected by his ma

*Kael*I woke up on a stone floor.For a moment I didn't know where I was. The stone was cold under my cheek. Grey morning light was coming through tall windows. Somewhere outside, gulls were crying over the sea.And I was warm.That was the first strange thing. I had fallen asleep on a cold stone floor with no shirt on, and I was warm. I looked down. There was a thick blue blanket over me. Someone had tucked it around my shoulders, carefully, the way a mother tucks in a child.Then I lifted my head and saw the bed.She was asleep.She was sitting up against the headboard with her knees pulled up and her arms wrapped around them. Her head had fallen to one side. Her long dark hair had spilled down over her shoulder like a curtain. She looked very small in that big bed. She looked tired, even in her sleep. There were dark shadows under her eyes.She had sat there all night, watching me. Until she couldn't keep her eyes open anymore.I sat up slowly. My head felt strange. Light. Clear.