CLAIMED BY MY STEPBROTHERS
he asked, and I could see how much it cost him to ask, to give me the choice even though every instinct was screaming at him to simply take.
"Kiss me, Ronan," I said. "Before I change my mind."
He did.
And if Maddox's kiss was desperate and hungry, Ronan's was claiming. It was possession and worship combined, it was a promise and a threat, it was everything he'd been fighting for and against wrapped up in the press of his lips against mine.
The bond deepened.
I felt the connection extend, wrapping around all of us, pulling us together into something that felt like unity and inevitability and home.