Sold To The Monster Alpha
I kept my eyes tightly closed, my muscles entirely rigid as I waited for the inevitable pain of his correction.
But the strike never came.
Instead, the broad, calloused expanse of his palm moved forward, pressing firmly against my forehead.
The moment his skin touched mine, I let out a soft, involuntary whimper. I was boiling. The heat radiating from my skin was a fierce, unnatural fire, a staggering temperature that was dangerous even by the elevated standards of a shifter’s anatomy. It was an objective, undeniable reality. There was no possible way to fake a fever this severe; no amount of courtly manipulation could force a body to reach the point of literal combustion.