The Alpha tone in his voice was impossible to ignore. My shaking hands slowly released their tight grip on the fur. I reached out with my left hand and carefully took the heavy water skin from his thick fingers. Our skin brushed for a second. His hand was rough, like sandpaper, but it was so warm.I brought the leather skin to my dry, cracked lips.I tilted my head back and drank. The water was not freezing. It was cool, clean, and tasted slightly sweet, entirely different from the dirty, rusty puddle water I had been forced to survive on. I drank greedily, the water spilling down my dirty chin and soaking into the thick fur around my shoulders.I drank until my stomach physically ached. I lowered the skin, breathing heavily.I held the water skin out, trying to give it back to him.Kaelen just shook his head slowly. "Keep it."I pulled the heavy skin back against my chest, hiding it under the fur. I pressed myself harder against the stone wall, waiting.The silence stretched between
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