Lucas

　　He gently grazed his rough thumb on his soulmate's bluish cast circling faintly on her delicate skin.

　　Anna Marie. She looked so tired, only a few hours of sleep for her while she was in his arms. He held her all night to dispel her nightmares. It had help. Only just.

　　A surge of protectiveness calling forth hand in hand with extreme possessiveness surged through his veins. It took an effort to hold it down tamping his impulses. Muscles tensed ...