The Werewolf's Bride
A bruise was already blooming along her cheekbone where Lira’s fist had grazed her.
He took her injured arm in careful hands.
“Hold still.”
He leaned in and, without warning, licked the wounds.
Elara gasped. The contact was warm, wet, strangely intimate. She felt the faint rasp of his tongue, then something else, warmth spreading, tingling, numbing the worst of the pain.
“What are you...”
“Werewolf saliva,” he murmured against her skin. “Heals faster than anything human. Especially for mates.”
He continued, slow, deliberate strokes of his tongue along each cut. The bleeding slowed. The edges began to knit together before her eyes.