The Lycan's Rejected Mate
I had hoped that those words, his calm, collectedness, would have eased something in me, even if it were a fraction of ease, but it didn’t.
“I have to go,” I told him softly. “I have to end this.”
“There is no way I am letting you walk into an active burn zone,” His eyes ignited with his lycan, as if it were territorial at the thought of me leaving.
I shook my head and turned away, but the moment that I turned away from him, his hand brushed along my shields, filling my mind with one word… “Please!”
“Violet, my scouts will report soon, and I promise you we will go then. Just stay put for now.” Outwardly, he was harder, tougher. But that hand brushing my shield, it was soft, begging to be hea