Chrome and Claws
“I’m right here, baby. Always here.
Come back to me.”
The mate bond flared like lightning. Images flooded her showing Axel’s hands on hers, Axel’s scent of smoke,leather and pine, Axel’s voice whispering her name in the dark.
Her wolf shuddered, and growled.
Bones cracked, muscles snapped, and in a violent, shivering collapse, Raven shifted back. She fell forward on her hands and knees, naked, gasping, drenched in sweat and blood. The world tilted, her lungs on fire, her skin stinging as if she’d been flayed.