Threats
"I'm usually patient," Yamazaki said with a small smile, "and where my mate is concerned I'm willing to wait four hundred years to get married. You know I love you, when there is something troubling you I believe it is in my right to know."
He was right, she had been acting weird ever since he got back, but that is because, true to Kouga's word, Touga had paid her a visit. She had chosen not to go, there was nowhere to run, and Touga could follow their scents anyway. "You know I can kill the fox," he had said and there was a strange evil glint to his eye. "Join with me or live with the guilt of knowing you killed him."
"Touga hasn't forgiven you," she whispered with a choke to her voice. "He wants to override the mating mark," she fondled her neck and looked up at him. "I don't want to be responsible for him killing you out of some stupid jealousy." She looked at her feet, "I love you, the only love I have for him is friendship, but he says this is something that only you and he are allowed to join in, Yamazaki, I don't know what to do." She looked up with a plea to be comforted, it was not to be granted, the fox was not even there.