Forced Mating

Twenty-Five

I was getting hungry but last time I tried to leave the bed Caden pulled me back into his side. I was going to force my way out but after he had a day of thinking I was going to leave him, I didn't want him thinking I was going anywhere, so I stayed tucked into his side and sighed in contentment.

"Babe?" I thought he was asleep but I guess he woke up. His eyes were still closed as he pulled me closer, tucking both arms aorund me.

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

I laughed lightly and tilted my head up to place my lips on his gently before resting my head on his chest, "I love you too Caden."

"You have no idea what those three short words mean to me." He still hadn't moved and I don't think he had even opened his eyes yet.

"I hope they mean what I think they mean. You have my heart Caden, always will."

He moved and I ended up under him as his eyes searched mine, they just kept going back and forth between them before he slowly smiled and his eyes brightened.

"What?"

He didn't reply for a while as he caressed my cheek with his thumb and then ran it lightly over my lips, "I don't understand how someone can actually be flawless. You are naturally beautiful. You are like a miracle unto itself."

"I am far from perfect."

He shook his head, "You have me fooled. You're the most dazzling lady I know."

"Where did this come from?"

"What?"

"Some days you just seem to feel the need to tell me something important, why today?"

"I realized when I thought you were going to leave, that there wasn't a thing about you I didn't like. And that I would miss everything about you. You have me so enthralled in you Bee, I'm hooked, entirely and willingly mesmerized by you."

I still don't get what he sees in me, but at least he thinks I am okay, rather than having a smoking hot mate who thinks I am ugly.

"I would never think that," he growled and I looked down. I forgot about him being able to know some of my thoughts, and vice versa.

"Caden it was just a thought-"

"I'm sorry Blake. I just wish you could see what I see when I look at you. You steal my breath away every morning. You get me so enticed sometimes just when you are doing nothing in particular that I literally just stop. You're fascinating."

I knew I blushed and he lightly held my cheeks, "You-" he kissed my lips quickly, "are. Mine. And. You-" he pulled my hips up to his, "turn me on with just a look. Your legs, your hips, your lips, not to mention your eyes, even your nose is the best I have ever seen."

I looked down and he tilted my chin up.

"Shouldn't your mate's opinion be more important than anyone elses?"

"Did you think I looked okay before all of this happened? Or is it just the mate pull?"

"No, you have never looked okay, that is what I am trying to say to you." I thought he was saying he liked how I looked. He pulled me out of the bed but I turned my back to him.

"I know I am ugly, you could've just said that! Let me go!" I knew I was emotional lately, part of the marking thing.

I don't think I have ever seen Caden mad before now, and now he looked furious but I don't even get why!