The Blood Sovereign's Omega (MM Romance)
Every part of him wanted to bite me.
Instead, he slowly forced his face away from my neck. His head tilted toward the ceiling as he gripped the back of his own neck with bloodied fingers, every muscle in his shoulders trembling as he fought the bond with everything he had.
"I will not mark you," Lucien rasped, a thin line of blood appearing on his lower lip from his clenched teeth. "Even if it kills me."
I stared at the tight line of his throat. He was the Blood Sovereign, the apex predator of the Upper Towers who had ended lives with a single glance inside the subway station. Yet he was breaking his own nature, piece by piece, just to keep me safe.