Chapter 68: The bond to the Pack

"If you want to go, I don't have to keep you," I said. "I know you have duties."

The thought of him leaving pained me. I didn't want him to go, but I didn't want to force him to stay, either. It wouldn't be fair.

"Yes. I have some duties as your mate as you do as mine. Let us enjoy this for now."

I smiled back at him at his reply.

"Okay, I can do that."

It's incredible how much can be said with so few words. Even as we sat there wrapped up in each other's arms, speechless, I could feel how pleased my mate was. There was something much more powerful between us, and it was palpable; it radiated the room.

"Do you feel it too?" I asked him.

"Yes," Erix murmured into my hair. "The pack can feel it too. They know we've mated."

"So that's why the pack hasn't bothered us this late. In the day," I mumbled more to myself.

Normally Jude or Wyatt would have come and gotten him for something by now. He's rarely ever still in bed past nine.

"I meant no one got us up early today, and you're st