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Her body instantly stiffened. She was not ready for it. She was not ready to face them 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 excruciating to him.

"It is the rule, Eva." He whispered, "we have been mated. And mates live together. I can not live without you anymore as it hurts me every time I walk out of this door. And if I left the pack, I do not think I will be able to survive. We wolves stay in packs. I will get killed by our 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." 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.

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

"Our home from now on." Rush smiled, grabbed her hand and pulled her inside.

Their luggage had already been delivered. Eva had emptied her flat but left some things so that she could go there 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 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 kitchen. His mouth came down to smash on mouth, biting her lip harshly, "Then I am going to make you help me eat something."