Semua Bab The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha: Bab 81 - Bab 83

ELIRAI stood there with my bound hands held awkwardly in front of me, close enough to touch him but not daring to yet, waiting for Elder Wren to give some kind of direction, waiting for anyone in that chamber to tell me what came next."You may touch him," Elder Wren said finally, her voice carrying a strange gentleness that didn't match the formality of everything else happening in that room. "If that is part of how this bond expresses itself, the Council needs to witness it fully, whatever form it takes."I nodded, my throat tight, and reached down with both bound hands together, since I had no other way to manage it with the rope still cutting into my wrists, and let my fingers rest against the back of his hand where it lay still against the white linen.His skin felt cool. Too cool. Nothing like the warmth I remembered from three nights ago, when his fingers had curled around mine with real, deliberate strength, when his eyes had found mine and held them with that fierce, impossib