Excerpt of Marked by Elisabeth Naughton

LOSING IT ALL

Theron brushed a finger down Acacia’s cheek, watched her
back rise and fall in deep sleep. Studied the way her
lashes formed spiky crescent shapes on her pale cheeks. Her
courage still awed him. Last night she’d been ready to take
him on. There was no other female in the universe who would
dare stand up to him when he was in one of his moods, but
it hadn’t stopped her. She was fearless. And as selfless as
he’d told the king. Everything he’d never wanted but now
couldn’t imagine living without.

He’d known she was his from the first taste. Long before
he’d ever slid deep inside her. If he’d been more in tune
with his humanity, he would have recognized it the first
time he’d kissed her back in her small house. But he
hadn’t. Because he’d needed her to unlock that side of him
he’d always repressed.

She was his curse. His soul mate. His life. And there
wasn’t a damn thing he could do to keep her from dying.