his. We laid there for a few minutes not moving. I looked up at him and started to laugh. There was grass and leaves stuck all over his body and mine. But my happiness was short lived when he opened his mouth. “I’m sorry I should not have done this.” He was starting to back up off of me. “Why are you sorry Jake? Did you not want this? Do you not want me?” My voice was getting louder. A man should NEVER say I’m sorry after sex. “Of course I do but I should not have marked you.” I almost got up to try to look, remembering we were in the woods. I got a little excited. “You marked me? Wait how can I be marked twice?” I was feeling all over my body for some sign of where the mark was. “You can’t. I mean I’m not sure. That should not have happened. You can only be marked once. This is very strange." His hand was in his hair while the other was on his hip. "It should have prevented me from doing that.” He looked just as confused as he sounded. He grabbed my hand and put it over the mark I was so vigorously looking for. “Everyone will see what I have done” He looked right into my eyes. “Good! I want everyone to know I’m yours.” I had had enough. “Yes but if anyone finds out that you were already marked I will be killed.” I stood up. “Over my dead body.” I said with as much force as I could put behind it. “Izzy really this is serious.” I guess he didn't know I was just as serious. “Jake no one will know I was already marked.” He gently kissed my forehead then turned and paced naked for a few moments. He was deep in thought and so was I, probably not about the same thing though! He was a beautiful sight then he stopped pacing and looked as though he came to a conclusion, but was not going to share. We got dressed and headed back to the house. “So who would put out those missing signs?” I wanted to change the subject. “I don’t know, but you need to stay in the house from now on.” “Here we go again, so I'm a prisoner now?” “Izzy this is for your own good. Someone wants you bad and I can’t let that happen.” “Well I think I can take care of myself and you for that matter.” He just gave me a look of don't go there and didn’t say anything else until we got home. I guess he was still deep in his thoughts. “Will you cover your neck for right now?” I felt my neck with my fingertips. “Yes but I need to know something. Do you regret what we did?” “Yes, I should not have done that. I let my emotions get in the way. It was foolish of me to do that.” I heard my heart break into a thousand pieces. Even if it was a mistake he should have lied to me then. “Well don’t worry anymore. No one will know what we did.” I said it as calm as I could even though I was on the verge of tears. I opened the door to the cottage and walked through the living room and down the hall to my room without a word to anyone. I let myself fall down on the bed and started to cry. I had been through too much to lose the one person I felt at home with. I heard Jake come to the door. “Izzy can I come in?” I didn’t want him to see me this way. “NO! Jake go away. I don’t feel like talking to anyone at the moment.” “I’m sorry Izzy; you don’t understand what I mean. I‘m not good with talking and saying the right things.” It was too late the damage had been done. I already knew how he truly felt. It was a mistake. “Please just go away.” I asked to save what pride I had left. After a few seconds I heard him walk