Chapter Forty-Nine (Isla)

Stupid Anders, why did he have to come back so soon? He’d been gone all day, so I figured he’d be back after supper. Now he knows I can’t cook.

“Your domestic life is over.” Daciana stated matter of fact. Before bursting into fits of laughter,

“Asshole.” I muttered under my breath.

She laughed harder and in between fits of laughter said, “He ate your swamp water.”

“It wasn’t swamp water, it was soup.”

“Whatever you say.”

My mind drifted to the events from the night before and how right it had felt to be with him. He had marked me and in doing so doomed us both.

“Why can’t I mind-link with him if he claimed me?” I questioned Daciana.

“You should be able to, but I think he may be blocking it for now, or at least until the matter with the Elders is dealt with or maybe because you haven't claimed him.”

“I thought it was just him who had to claim me?”

“He’s a wolf and your part wolf. The wolfy side needs you to claim him back, which you didn’t do, and it explains why you can’t min