Zane held the witch close, he breathed in her scent. Helping her heal hadn't been as painful as he was expecting, he's beast was content at being able to feel his mate on a level he had never experienced before. He was still worried that if he tried to mark her with a claiming bite that his beast would take over and he would hurt his witch, it didn't matter that she trusted him; his beast was a whole different matter.
He sighed as he brushed a strand of hair off of her cheek, she was the best thing that had ever happened to him and it still hurt him to think of what had happened to her at the hands of Sayo and Gabriel. Her skin was healed, no longer marred by the deep claw marks. She breathed easily in sleep, the casting made her exhausted and he was thankful for her brief reprieve that s
