I'm still following Markus Wolf who has been running for an hour now. I am trying to get hold of him but he is faster than I thought. I made a mistake twenty-five years ago and I will not turn my back again this time. He suffers a lot because of me. I want to apologize and I want us to make amends.
I keep running until he stops. He's now at the top of the cliff looking at me. I looked into his beautiful sea eyes.
Is he going to jump? I asked myself.
I started to shift into my human form.
"Markus no!!! Please don't do this." I shouted while climbing naked on the cliff. "I know I made a mistake turning my back on you and I'm sorry... I can't see you dying back then, I can't, I just can’t. I don't know that you're still alive. I feel our bond broken. I thought I lost you."
He looks at me and slowly shifts back to his human form.
"Ele," he said.
It took all my breath away. Hearing my name once again on my mate's lips. Even if I married Arthur, I treasure in my heart what I felt when I first met Markus. The little moments we have with each other. If I could turn back time, I wouldn't go back to the Palace and ask for my father's approval. I would have run away with him.
"I'm sorry Markus, I thought that you were going to die and I couldn't stand watching you, I-I---" I said.
He pulls me in his arms and that takes everything to bring us back to where we were before my father tried to kill him. The sparks once again ignite in our bodies to the point that we are both naked.
"I miss you Ele, I'm sorry I did all of this. I was lost and didn't know what to do. You left me, they just threw me back into my pack dying." He said.
I don't believe he is behind all of this. I know he could do bad things because of what happened to him, but killing innocent people? That's not my mate.
"I don't believe that you are behind all of this, but I know you are one of them," I said, still hugging him.
He pulled me closer. "But I know what Durren's plan is and I didn't stop him, I just let him do what he wanted and let him use my pack." He said.
"You're not capable back then, you lost me and you think that I left you. I can talk to my son about it, he will understand," I said.
"Are you going to be with me now, Ele?" He asks.
I smiled at him and pulled him for a kiss. He kisses back with the same passion and hunger that I give. He knows the answer. I can't leave him again and in two days Kath will take over my position. Arthur is now living with his true mate. I think we can discuss this when I get back to the kingdom.
"I can't leave you again Markus, I will talk to Zeus about this, right now... go and fix this pack once again. Be the Alpha they loved before. Duren is now dead, they need their true Alpha back." I said while touching his face, tracing all the patterns that I had missed for twenty-five years.
"You know touching me like this will not help the situation that we are both naked Ele." He said.
Even at this age, I still blush in front of my mate.
He laughs at me. I pulled him down and sat on the cliff looking at the sky... I want to thank the Moon Goddess for giving us another opportunity.
"Ele look... Arthur's bite mark is gone." He was shocked as well as I am.
I touched my neck where his mark was imprinted, but it's really gone. It means that Arthur broke the bond. He is the only one who can do that because he is a royal. He gave me my freedom.
"Arthur broke the bond," I said, not believing in what was happening.
"Finally, he made the right decision in his life," Markus said, kissing my neck. "Now you are mine again." He said before biting me, putting his claim on me. The pain comes and, after a little moment, it changes to a more electrifying spark in our body.
"You marked me," I said, not believing that he did it just like that.
"Why? Don't you want it?" Markus.
"No, but at least just warn me before marking me. Never thought you were such an asshole, Markus." I said, standing and walking away again, but not because I'm afraid, but because I hate what he did. He just marked me, just like that. I haven't talked to my son yet. I don't want him to think badly of me.
"Hey, Ele... come on don't do this. I'm sorry." He said.
"You just don't bite a girl just like that. You need to court me first, Markus." I said, pushing him away, but he pulled me closer to him.
I know we're too old for that, but I never experienced that in my life.
"I never thought that it was important to you. We are now fifty years old, Ele, and you're acting like you are eighteen. Look at me...." he looked me in the eyes and kissed me on my cheek. "I can court you every day until the end of our life, but I can't let you walk away with me unmarked. My wolf can't stop himself marking you." He said.
We might be fifty years old, but the wolf ages slowly. We look like we are just in our thirties.
I looked at him and then my son shouted inside my head.
'Mom, where the hell are you? Zeus said using our link.
'I'm fine son, just talking to an old friend.' I said.
'Old friend or an old mate? Mom, I know everything, just come home so we can talk about this.' Zeus said.
''Can I bring Markus back? He needs to talk to you.' I asked.
'WHAT THE HELL? DID YOU HAVE SEX WITH HIM ALREADY? ' Zeus shouted in my head. I almost laughed back at him but I knew Markus was watching me, he might feel that I was talking to someone.
'ZEUS, IF YOU SHOUT AT ME AGAIN, I SWEAR I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR BALLS OUT. I'm coming home alone because Markus will fix his pack, but after that, he is going to talk to you and one more thing, son. He, mark me, but we didn't have sex, okay? Your father broke our bond.' After I said that, I ended the conversation and put a wall, blocking everyone up in my head.
"So... who is it?" Markus.
"I need to go home now, Markus, but call me after you fix your pack. I'm going to talk to my son and I need to pass my crown to his mate." I said before kissing him and shifting to my wolf form.
He just stands there looking at me until I'm out of his sight. We need to fix both sides before we actually settle down.
Finally, all of this ended in a nice way.
Soon everyone will be happy.