BOUGHT BY THE BEAST
His thumbs dug into my cheekbones hard enough to leave bruises, but I didn't pull away.
I couldn't.
Caspian stood over me in the dim light of the command tent, completely naked, his broad chest still smeared with the dark, half-dried blood of the gate guards he had slaughtered to reach me. His skin radiated furnace heat, cutting through the damp chill of the canvas, smelling so heavily of copper, cedar, and raw violence that it coated the back of my throat. His silver eyes were wild and blown wide, the pupils dilated until there was barely any color left, searching my face with a frantic, starving desperation that made my own heart hammer against my ribs.