Possession

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Her body instantly stiffened. She was not ready for it. She was not ready to face Liam and Aster together yet.

"You are joking, right?" She asked. Hoping and praying that it was, indeed, a joke or a horrifying dream.

Rush looked away. But then his eyes came back to Eva. He grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her face closer to his.

His eyes had closed shut, like he was in deep pain and the next words that were going to come out of his mouth were nearly excruciating even to him.

"It is the rule, Eva." He whispered, "we are mated to each other now. And mates live together. I can not live without you anymore as it hurts me every time I walk out of door of your home. It is getting harder for me to leave your side every day even if it is for just a few hours."

He paused to take in her hurt expressions. He knew that he was hurting her by revealing the pain that he was going through, but she needed to know the truth if he wanted her to come with him. There was no other way to reveal it to her gently.

He continued, "And if I left the pack, I do not think I will be able to survive. We wolves stay in packs. My strength will slowly get lesser and I will not be able to stay alive much longer withouy my pack's strength with me. There is also a chance that I will get killed by our pack enemies before we even get a chance to start a life together."

"Rush.." she did not need to say more. Her voice held nothing but denial.

He wished he had more power in his hands to change this. He wished he could give her more time to recover but there was nothing that he could do to stop this. He had no control over it.

"I will protect you, Eva. I promise I will keep you safe and away from him as much as I can. I will not let you feel any more pain than you have already gone through, baby. Trust me." Rush said to her,

"But we need to move there. It is the only way for me to stay as a part of my pack. They are... they are talking about banishing me from the pack for staying separately even after having a mate."

Eva sighed in defeat. She could never let something like this happen to Rush. She could never let him suffer for what his brother had done.

Even though it was going to be hard facing Liam every day, it would get better with time. Or at least that is what she thought and hoped for.

"Fine." She said and snuggled deeper into Rush's chest, begging to the lord to give her enough strength to make a right decision,

"If that is what we need to stay together, then let's move to your pack."

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"Is it your home?" Eva breathed out the words in wonder.

She was standing outside a beautiful, creamy white Villa. It was small but pretty. Slightly edgy and modern, giving it a touch of Rush's choice.

"Our home from now on." Rush smiled, grabbed her hand and started to pull her inside.

But before they could take more than two steps, Eva halted her steps. Rush turned to face her with a confused look covering his expressions.

"What happened?" He softly asked, worried that she had changed her decision or did not like her new home.

"Would I," Eva gulped in front of him in nervousness before saying the words, "Would I be seeing them here too? I mean Liam and you lived together, right?"

Her downcasted eyes lifted up, fear was clouding them, "So would Aster and Liam be here too?"

Rush sighed and pulled her closer to himself before assuring her,

"Liam left the house the day of his marriage. He and Aster now live together at the pack house. Do not worry at all, baby."

Eva smiled at him. Relief filled her.

Their luggage had already been delivered at the house. Eva had emptied her flat but left some things so that she could go there at any time she wanted.

She was not going to sell it. That flat was made with her heart and love. She could never even imagine selling it.

Rush took her inside. There was a big hall with couches and sitting area. On the side there was a kitchen.

There were two rooms in the house. The one that Rush showed her first was their bedroom.

It was black and white, a queen size bed in the middle and big window with glass and heavy curtain were covering it.

"Do you like it?" Rush asked while pulling her in his arms and kissing her lips.

"Very nice." She slid her hands in his waist and smiled while putting her chin on his chest, looking lovingly up into his eyes.

"You hungry?" Her gaze turned mischievous.

Her mouth slipped sideways and she bit down on his nipple sharply through the t shirt that he was wearing,

"Very." She giggled and sucked on the spot when he winced and moaned out her name.

"I am going to eat you raw!" He groaned loudly and picked her up before throwing her over his shoulder like a rag doll, "but before that, you need to eat something, you horny bitch!"

Eva started laughing loudly and wriggled in his grip. But suddenly Rush lifted up his hand and it landed on her behind hardly.

"Hey!" She exclaimed.

Rush caressed the spot that he had hit, and then hit her ass once again, making her wince and breath hard in arousal.

"First I am going to make you eat something." Rush said while pulling her down and making her sit on the island of the kitchen. His mouth came down to smash on Eva's, biting her lip harshly, "Then I am going to make you help me eat something."