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eyes clouded over with a dark look. I might have been wrong, but I could have sworn that it was a look of jealousy.

Was he actually jealous of the other Darken?

Then, his eyes flicked over to meet mine. “It’s going to be me, you know.”

“How can you be so sure of that?” I asked him. When it came down to it, the truth was that even I didn’t know who I was going to end up choosing in the end. There was no way he could know for sure, unless he was able to see the future.

“Because that’s what I came here for. I told you I came here to claim what’s mine. Well, I was talking about you. You’re mine, Raven. Or you’re going to be, anyway. You just don’t know it yet.” Kane’s green eyes pierced through mine. Then, without saying another word, his arms fell to the small of my pick, and he pulled me into him.

His lips came crashing down on mine. There was an urgency behind his kiss, a hunger that I matched fully and completely.

I wrapped my hands around his neck, deepening the kiss.

It was the first time we had kissed since our first kiss, the kiss that had ignited our mate bond. Judging from the way he kissed me, it was obvious that he had been thinking about kissing me again since the last time we had seen each other.

The reason I knew was because I had thought about kissing him, too.

The way that my body responded to him, giving in completely and fully to the kiss… Well, it was safe to say that he was definitely a contender.

He pushed me up against a tree and continued to kiss me for what felt like an eternity.

When we finally broke away from one another, I was completely breathless.

I wasn’t going to lie. It must have had something to do with the fact that we had been apart from one another for so long, but it was, by far, one of the best kisses of my life.

“That was incredible,” Kane whispered. I knew then that I wasn’t only imagining it: this kiss had really been something special. Because while I didn’t know him that well, I did know one thing from all of the stories I had heard about him the past year. Kane wasn’t the type of guy who just let his emotions show. But there they were, written all over his face.

“Oh, look. We have spectators,” Kane said amusedly.

Whirling around, I found Theo standing there. “Ohmigod. What are you doing here?”

Theo didn’t respond to me at first. He just stood there, staring at me. There was a look of jealousy in his eyes.

No, it was more than just jealousy. It was pure anger.

Theo was pissed that I’d kissed Kane the way I had.

He just stared at me like I was complete stranger to him, rather than the girl he was in love with. He stared at me like I wasn’t even his mate at all.

“Look, Theo, I can explain,” I began, but he threw his hand up in the air to stop me from saying anything else.

“It’s fine, Raven. I get it. I know what you’re going to say. You’re not in control of any of this.” His blue eyes met mine, and I could see the pain in them.

I knew what he was thinking, the part of the statement that he was keeping to himself.

“Except, you are.”

He wasn’t wrong. I did have total control of who I kissed and when.

But the thing that Theo didn’t understand, the one thing I wished I could make him understand, was that I didn’t want to control it.

Whether he liked it or not, I wanted all of them… Kane included.

Chapter 20

“I should really go after him,” I said with a sigh as I watched Theo heading back to the table that was designated for the Darken.

“Or you could just stay here and make out with me some more,” Kane suggested.

I rolled my eyes at him as I watched Theo sit down. It made me sad to know that I had hurt him.

Even though I hadn’t regretted kissing Kane and getting caught, I didn’t want to hurt my mates, either. I probably should have been more discreet about it.

“You know being discreet won’t help anything, right?” Kane asked.

“How do you know?” I glanced over at him.

“Because you say you’re going to choose only one of us in the end. Well, that means four of us—or the four