TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING
And I feel her turn toward me, feel her attention sharpen like a blade catching light, what, she seems to say, what do you want, flesh, and I reach for the edge of her the way you’d reach for the edge of something enormous in the dark—
Cold floods up my arms. Silver. My hands sing with it, and my eyes fly open, and they’re glowing, I can see the light of them reflected in Knox’s face, and it is magnificent, and it is terrifying, and it is far, far too much—
“Less,” Knox says sharply. “Ember. Pull back. A thread, not the whole—”
Panic hits me. Instead of easing off, I clamp down hard.
The silver gutters, surging violently in the wrong direction, and a crack splits the matted floor between us.