The first thing I noticed was the heat. Not the kind that makes you sweat, but the kind that presses into your bones, curls around your skin, and sets your senses on fire. Then came the smell the metallic, wild, like a storm had broken open in the middle of the Raelthorn courtyard. And then him.Thane Raelthorn. Demi-god. Wolf prince. Walking disaster. He was bigger than any man I’d ever seen, and the kind of beautiful that made your stomach ache without warning. Claws dug into the stone beneath him. His chest heaved, hair plastered to his forehead with sweat and, God, I had no right to notice, something else. Fear? Pain? Hunger? All of it? I couldn’t tell.And I didn’t want to.I wanted out. My brain screamed it in frantic waves, but my legs didn’t move. Something held me in place and something stronger than terror, stronger than reason. I barely managed a step back, and he was there in a blink, catching me with hands that were both terrifying and steady.“Don’t run,” he said. His vo
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