Chapter 341-350

Chapter 341
Zev nodded down at her, his stomach churning with so many emotions he didn’t know which to react to. He wanted to hold her close and comfort her. He wanted to snarl and race after Nick and bite out his throat. He wanted to weep and plead for forgiveness. He wanted to push everything that had ever happened before this moment out of his mind and just take her.

He settled for staring into her eyes and stroking her hair. “Sash,” he croaked. “I know there’s a lot to forgive. I get it. And not just you. They have… I hurt them. I know that. I wish… I wish I’d understood and thought it through. I wish I’d said no. For both our sakes. I’m going to use the rest of my life making that up to you. But… we need each other. I couldn’t… when the bond was broken it… I thought I was going to die when I came back through the Gateway—did it hurt you too? Like that?”

“Yes,” she breathed, her eyes wide and he felt her flinch away from the memory of the pain. “That scared me.”

“Me too. We can never cross the Gateway without each other. Promise me, Sash. It was worse the second time. What’s going to happen next time?”

She sucked in a breath like she was bracing at the thought. Fear and uneasiness twisted into her scent and her entire body tensed. “I don’t know,” she whispered, her eyes pleading with him. He was about to ask her what she was thinking when voices rose back on the trail and they both felt the pull of duty, but resisted it for themselves.

Then Sasha put a hand to his chest and gripped his top. “I just know that… that I need you like I need air, Zev.”

He groaned and kissed her then, a desperate, gasping kiss, his hands clutching at her sides, his entire body pressed into hers, knees to shoulders, keeping her pinned against that tree.