The Sentinel's Vow
I leaned down, pressing my lips hard against his, tasting the faint salt of his skin and the lingering heat of his breath.
Klaus groaned into my mouth, his arms wrapping tightly around my back, lifting my torso off his chest as he deepened the kiss. His tongue slid past my lips with a dark, demanding hunger that instantly set my blood on fire.
For three days in the mountain cabin, we had been driven by terror, adrenaline, and the suffocating shadow of death. But here, in this quiet, damp motel room across the border, the kiss was different. It wasn't a desperate farewell before a battle; it was a dark, possessive claiming of a future we had bled to reach.