~ Cain ~Being so close to Kelsie without touching her had been hell. There would be a lot of touching when I got back to her.A lot.All the touching.Every kind—‘Cain! Stop! This is hard enough as it is!’I hadn’t realized I was forming pictures in my mind of the two of us together, turning them, showing them to her, showering her in images of us naked and entwined and…My wolf howled and I felt Kelsie jolt with need for me.For me!I twitched, the urge to run straight to her so acute

~ Kelsie ~There was a night in the first year Daniel and I were together that I fell asleep on his couch and came home after curfew.My parents didn’t freak out, but they were worried. The irony was, Daniel and I had gotten a lot closer to sleeping together on other nights when I hadn’t stayed out late, but I didn’t want to tell them that. I was able to reassure them the next day that it hadn’t been anything bad. That I’d just fallen asleep. And they could tell that I was telling the truth.But it also made my Mom decide that I needed The Talk again.I’d been so ir

~ Kelsie ~It was a good thing I timed dinner for half an hour after Cain was supposed to get home. My casserole hadn’t been ready when Daniel showed up, but with everything that happened after that moment, I completely forgot about it and it cooked it for at least twenty minutes too long before I remembered. Then I gasped.“Dinner! Shit!”I hurriedly threw my clothes on and raced downstairs, Cain at my heels, chuckling as I groaned when the unmistakeable smell of overcooked casserole met us in the living room.But in the end, it didn’t matter.It was a little dry, but Cain ate like a starving man. Inhaling the food like it was delicious.I was hungr

SOUNDTRACK: “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims.*****~ Cain ~Fingers clawing, I took Kelsie's face in my hands and devoured her, delving the velvet depths of her mouth, my body shivering with need. My head was spinning with all the ways I could take her, all the places this joining could take us. But there was one thing, one end that stood higher than the others. The thing that called me. The thing I’d been resisting.The Claiming.Among wolves, Claiming was the ultimate commitment, and the only unbreakable vow. And it was happening less and less. Because if a mate was claimed, then lost, their partner was... destroyed.I hadn’t told Kelsie about it, hadn’t ever been able t

~ Kelsie ~My entire body washed in a wave of tingling pleasure and tension that stole a cry from my throat. For a moment, instinctively, I pulled against where he held my wrists just because I wanted to grab for him.But then he dragged himself all the way out, hooked his elbow behind my knee to keep it high, buried his nose in my neck, and thrust powerfully back into me.I trembled from head to toe.With my leg bent up like that it changed the sensation. I was still gasping, trying to keep up with him, but between the way he held my wrists, how he had my leg, and the way he pinned me with his hips, I could barely move.I was helpless, shuddering and gasping as he undulated over me, hands gripping, breath hot, his voice a