Chapter 17
Reyna
Being inside his home was intoxicating.
Her nose told her few people were in and out of this part of Bitterroot's territory. It was heavily scented and thick with the Alpha's warning: mine, stay out.
She liked that. Liked that when she stepped into his cabin, it was just the two of them, with only faint traces of Evander, his Beta. It felt pure and safe. Intimate.
Maybe that fed into the usual tension between them; made it easier to fall into the magnetism of the moment. And fall she did.
Feeling his warmth at her back, his voice vibrating through her chest, watching that little half smile flicker over his mouth as he told her about his family – it all went to her head.
His hand on her stomach pressed her more firmly to him, and he watched her struggle to breath
