me suffocating, a

heated skin, carrying the scent of jasmine and wet earth. For a moment, the familiar fragrance tran

elonged to ano

s you better than t

ed her ey

need to t

uld fe

shirt undone. There was something different about him tonight. The arrogant Alpha who had rejected h

ay, Ki

tone railing and k

o whatever high-born she-wolf yo

is no o

rough as he

worthy of being my Luna, but every time I touched ano

inally

led with something she had

gr

o years," he continued. "Fenris refuses to a

ression re

d to make me fee

N

oo

pped to

e over me. You stood before your entire pack and made me fe

slightly, but she r

el sorry because you finall

yes filled

e a mi

ade a

ds sile

. His hand came up, stopping against the stone railing beside her

ery waking hour," he said quietly. "The

s searc

h my

pression

sn't

s jaw t

as my

s mine

sce

s raised there. He knows Caelum as his

Kieran's face was imme

Alpha everyone feared and more like a man reali

nce to fix it,

tared

cha

N

oulders sag

la.

o softly that it almos

ed the betrayal of her own instincts. She had spent five years teaching herself not to need him,

d before Lyla could stop

ing. For one dangerous moment, Lyla's carefully constructed defenses weakene

he rem

cred C

bl

hitting

telling her s

whatever weakness h

ined through years of training. Her palm struck his c

at her in st

fell rapidly as she fo

ever touc

ony doors, leaving Kieran

the figure standing in the

witnessed

covered that the bond between L