an unknown bedroom, covered with cotton soft

e as I surveyed the opulent furniture

he hell was I? How did

black wolf Dimitri in a cave a

d only be a bass broke through the confusi

heets that now lay in a heap around my waist as my head snap

he width of his broad muscular back turned to me as h

his sun-blessed caramel c

base of a champagne glass and he lo

der the smooth bronzed surface of his

tiveness indicating that he was an endearing stereotype

r beat as the image of our encounte

ture to dominate every molecu

e that caressed my

hich left me paralysed in mi

, trying to speak as desired slipped throu

s shoulders indifferently, then let them fall again. "My

d in his deep tone that made me shiver - a s

re meaningful and personal t

aiming for a stern rebuke. But the slight

me fully and I felt the a

ll his masculine glory, rippling

oxer-briefs that sculpted and clung to his powerful t

s inch of him before snapping

molten gold, gleaming with an int

as if he knew exactly where my eyes ha

ep and smooth and oh so subtly mocking. "S

stealing over me. "Don't call me that. A

richly, unoffende

with that predatory, liquid

at his approach and my eyes raked hungri

quiet intensity. "You were lost, alone, vulnerable..." His gaze roamed over me in a

m over me yet again, but he silenced me by reach

undercurrent of banked heat and longi

the plump curve of my lower lip with maddening tenderness. "I won't force anythin

ll, my pride wouldn't surrender so easily. "And if I never give

ate straight into my core. "Oh, you'll give in," he vowed with supreme confidence. "Your soul al

ggedly handsome features we

ayer of resistance, leaving me raw and exposed to

ted lips with each rumbling word. "I can see it in your eyes, hear it in the wild thunde

past my lips at the stark, un

hing out and surrendering to the wild compulsio

as one of pure masculine

st smoldering look over his shoulder. "Because when you're ready, I promise...th

is

g hostility like a knife through butter. I stirred,

y gaze settled on the muscled, masculi

ercing green eyes enclosed in

and sharp, and cheekbones arc

and like the color that nearly stopped my heart and for

us had conjured this man si

nd barely audibly said the very w

t with some unknown emotion before his compell

e's K

one ringing in his voice while he stared

ore I could say anything, Dimitri gro

you are disturbing a p

ges of his irises glowing an angry brand of amber as h

g that all it did was make my treacherou

simply snorted and shook his head, reg

ing? You've got

is dismissive words, Kade turned that

wly, insolently taking his ti

ked both Dimitri's choice of mate and me in one cu

pected flare of hurt at how easily he dismissed and degraded me. Inexplicably, that

e insolent outsider for daring to challenge an alpha's mate-claim. But before eith

hell asked your

h a heated venom that surpris

g back to me, one sandy brow arche

ts, the air thick with unspoken challenge and a strange

gnit

between us, it thrummed with an und

approving smirk that made fevered heat lick

t seemed to stroke along my nerves like velvet. "I