Theo was restless. Knowing Jace was still out of town, he mindlinked Lucy about meeting him tonight, but she closed the link to him without responding. He was terrified of severing the last thread of the relationship they had left by having overstepped his boundaries.
He hadn’t intended to take things so far in the shower. When he walked in, intoxicated by the scent of night jasmine wafting on the steam from that shower stall, he was undone. His feet moved of their own accord, like a cartoon puppy carried along the fumes of a freshly baked pie on a window sill. He was carried there, to her. Then he heard his mate groaning in pain. Daemeon nearly pushed him into that stall.
He had no right to take her, ravish her, and enjoy it. Nor would he ever regret any second of it. No matter what h
