I want to feel your heartbeat

She buried her head in his neck, and he found himself leaning down, and sniffing the tender spots beneath her jaw, the base of her horns. Could there be another? He had caught no scent before, but he had been distracted of late. Had he neglected her too long when his leg was broken, had he annoyed her too many times with his treatment of others? Despite how much effort he had put in recent days into changing himself. An intruder had stepped onto their lands, instead of kidnapping her, he had offered her aid. He had done that for Zee, for his wife.

“Wouldn’t it be more relaxful to just let go here, instead of heading all the way home?” he asked softly, nipping below her ear, letting out a soft, possessive growl. There was a husky, angry, undertone to his words, despite how he tried to keep it out. “Or is there another reason you don't wish to lie with me. Is there another, Zee? Another wolf keeping you from my bed?” his voice became even softer, a bare whisper in her ear, with a growl gently underlain in the tone. The urge to take her despite her words was even stronger, to prove that she was his, and his alone.