Her Three Alphas
I said quietly, half to him and half to myself.
"You already have," he said.
I smiled into his chest.
"I mean something bigger," I said.
"I know," he said. And then, so quietly it was almost only a breath, "I cannot wait to watch."
Outside the window the stars were sharp and clear over Moonveil.
And in the morning there would be pack business and training and Vaelin's voice too loud at breakfast and all the ordinary beautiful texture of a life being fully lived.
But tonight the candles burned and Thorian's heart beat steadily under my ear and the silver light sat warm and quiet beneath my skin, resting, ready, entirely certain of itself.