Ariella’s POV
My back slammed into the most sculpted chest I’d ever felt in my life. Hard muscle, warm skin under a thin shirt, arms like steel bands locking around me.
The scent finally hit me full force…pine, dew, and that raw, masculine edge that screamed Alpha Rion.
My stomach dropped. How? How the hell hadn’t I recognized it last night? That shadow over my bed, the breath on my cheek… it had been him? The same man who was supposed to reject me today?
Before I could even twist around or scream inside my head, his big hands gripped my waist and yanked me around and pulled me flush against him. No warning. No words. His mouth crashed down on mine like he’d been starving for it.
The world froze. Then it exploded.
Fire shot straight through my veins, hot and wild and terrifying. Fl
