Compilation Of Short Stories
She curled into him, her head on his shoulder, her hand resting over the steady, powerful beat of his heart.
The eclipse bond had forced them together. But this, this fragile peace in the aftermath, this was their choice.
Aurora looked up at the slowly brightening sky, then at the demon whose arms held her. “The next eclipse is in three months,” she said, her voice quiet.
Xandros looked down at her, at the wolf he was now bound to in ways he was only beginning to comprehend. He brushed a strand of sweat-damp hair from her forehead.
“I know,” he said. A slow smile touched his lips, a genuine one, devoid of mockery or malice. “I’ll be waiting.”