Chapter 41
As if responding to Sebastien’s statement, our ungainly tether swelled into the girth of a boa constrictor as it trailed down my body and twined around each leg. The bond squeezed and slithered in a not entirely unpleasant fashion. And for half a moment, I thought I could actually see the glistening rope of connection binding me to my mate.
Then I blinked and the vision winked out, to be replaced by a cupcake cradled in my mate’s outstretched hand.
He’d peeled back the paper so carefully that each ridge was still perfectly formed, and the steam rising from the pastry had dwindled from a cascade of super-heated moisture to a thin trickle of warm air that twined between us and caressed my sensitive skin. A moment earlier, the heat within the chocolate would have made the experi
