Forced To Bear The Alpha's Son
The memory of last night returned all at once, heat rushing through me as I turned my head carefully toward him.
He was still asleep beside me.
His dark hair had fallen messily across his forehead, and without the cold sharpness he carried while awake, he looked less terrifying and dangerously beautiful.
My eyes drifted lower, to the tattoo stretched across the left side of his chest.
I had noticed it before, but never this closely.
The koi fish was elegant and fluid, its body winding across his skin in delicate black ink with hints of faded crimson near the fins, almost as though it were swimming through invisible water. The lines were graceful, beautiful in a way that did not match the bru