Page 58 of Seeded By Two

He turned around and lifted his shirt and pulled down his pants, revealing the top of his perfectly-formed ass.

At the base of his spine was a tattoo — one I was certain had not been there when we first made love.

It showed a naked human female in silhouette, arms reaching towards his spine.

I reached out and hesitated before putting my fingertips to it. “This just… appeared?”

It was the (real) Prince that answered. “Yes. It appears on each fated mate. It marks them, displaying how they’re meant to be together.”

“Marks the both of them?” I questioned. “Then that means…”

I reached back and touched my lower back but could not feel the tattoo through the négligée’s fabric.

“Yes,” Feon said, straightening up and tucking his shirt back in. “You have one too. In the same place but with a different image. It shows a male Krev.”

I rushed over to a reflective metal-paneled wall.

If what they were saying was true, I needed to see it with my own eyes.

I lifted the négligée up and was shocked to see there, in the imperfect warped metal sheet, the tattoo they had described.

My mom’s going to have a fit!

She had always forbidden me from getting any type of piercings or tattoos!

To have one grow on my body…

But her opinion was likely the least of my concerns right at that moment.

I frowned. “No. The design is different. It’s not like yours.”

“It will depict a male Krev,” the Prince repeated, crossing over to me.

“No. Not like that. There’s two of them. Look. On either side of my spine, reaching towards each other.”

The Krevs looked closely at the tattoo in the reflection.

They gasped in shock and took a step back.

“No…” Feon said. “That’s… That’s impossible…”

“What?” I said. “What’s impossible?”

This whole thing seemed impossible to me!

I turned so they could see the tattoo directly with their own eyes and without the aid of the reflective wall.

The Prince reached toward me, his hand shaking.

He pressed his fingers to the right-hand tattoo.

“It means…” he said, his voice rasping. “It means you have two fated mates… And that means…”

Feon reacted first and tore the Prince’s shirt up.

What he saw on his back made him gasp.

He too bore the fated mate tattoo.

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