Rejected in the Rain: The Alpha's Secret Heir
He buried himself deep and held there, shuddering, her name torn out of him in a broken whisper, and she felt him spill inside her and felt it through the thread at the same time, his release and her own tangled together in a channel that had been dead an hour ago, and for one long moment there was no telling where she ended and he began.
Afterward they lay tangled and slick and breathing hard, and he did not move off her, and she did not make him, and the fire burned low, and the frayed bright thread hummed faint and impossible between their two chests.
"That is not supposed to happen," he said at last, into her hair. His voice was wrecked. "A severed bond does not reforge. It cannot. It ha