goad her into it, but she surprised him when she went for it, biting down without any delay at all.
Roman snarled but kept his face and chin up and to the left so she’d have all the access she wanted. Through gritted teeth he continued to talk her through it. “Don’t let go. Hold it for a minute to be sure it scars.”
After a minute or so had passed, and Talie had continued to remain clamped around the bit of skin at his neck, he finally tapped her on the ass. “You can let go, love.”
Talie let go of his skin and leaned back to look at it. There was a trickle of blood where her teeth had broken the skin, but mostly it just looked bruised. “It looks terrible,” she said. “All purplish around the bite.”
“That’s ‘cause your teeth are blunt. The bruising will be faded in a couple of hours. If it fades, I might ask you to do it again,” Roman said.
Talie smiled. “Gladly.”
Roman looked down at his mate, so accepting of him, so trusting. “Thank you for adapting so easily.”
“I need you. I love you. All I can do is adapt, and it’s no hardship.”
Roman held her face steady while he leaned over and kissed her again. Then he backed her directly under the shower head and moved her hair away from her mark before leaning over and soothing the bite with his tongue. “Your mark is hardly visible. My teeth are so sharp there’s not much bruising, just small punctures. The one under your breast is more bruised than this,” he said.
“I knew you bit me last night!” she said.
Roman pulled back from licking her mark and grinned at her sheepishly. “I didn’t know if you’d let me mark your throat, so I marked where I could when I could,” he admitted.
“You didn’t ask this morning, either,” she pointed out.
“Yeah, but, you’d already met my Gorilla, and you said you loved us both, so, I figured it was a safe bet.”
Talie laughed. “It’s a good thing you’re cute,” she said, with an eyebrow raised.
Roman twitched his nose at her and winked at her. “You know you love me,” he said as he reached around her for the small bottle of shampoo she’d brought into the shower with her. He poured a bit into his palm and started washing his hair. When he was done, he quickly washed his body, rinsed himself off and dropped a kiss on her lips as she was lathering her own hair.
“I’m going to go ahead and get dressed, then see if I can call home. Take your time, love,” he said.
Talie smiled to herself after he left her to finish her shower as she thought about all the fantastical changes she’d been introduced to. As she rinsed her body and got out of the shower, he appeared in the bathroom again.
“Here. I got you some more stuff yesterday. Kinda the same style since I didn’t know your exact sizes,” he said, handing her a clean sports bra, panties, and a pair of gray cotton leggings with a white woven tunic, along with a hairbrush, and a toothbrush.
“You are amazing,” she said, accepting the clothes from him.
“Naw, just taking care of my woman,” he told her as he dropped a kiss on the tip of her nose before he left her to get dressed.
Talie looked at herself in the mirror and smiled at the changes she saw. Her face was relaxed, the lines that had creased her forehead the last several months were almost non-existent. She leaned forward and tilted her head to the side to better see her mating mark, just a few little punctures with a bit of raised skin. She ran her fingers over it and shivered at the tingles it gave her.
Smiling she finished drying off, then reached for the hairdryer. Once she was done, she slipped on her clothes, opened the door and walked out of the bathroom.
She smiled when she saw a clean pair of socks lying on top of her tennis shoes. She sat down and slipped them on, then put her shoes on while he was busy calling one number after another.
“Hmpf,” he grumbled.
“Is there a problem?” she asked, standing up and rolling her dirty clothes from the previous day into a tight little ball for packing.
“Nobody’s answering,” he said.
“Oh. Well, maybe they’re all busy on the way to work and taking kids to school,” she said.
“Maybe,” he agreed, looking over toward her