CIARA
I hadn’t slept a single wink. Every time I closed my eyes, I felt the heavy weight of Hayes’s hands pressing into my waist and the rough scrape of his stubble against my neck. My skin still felt completely hot where he had touched me on the floor, the memory of his hard body against mine keeping me wide awake.
“Alpha,” my wolf whispered in the back of my mind. She was restless, pacing around my thoughts, practically begging for his scent to fill the room again.
"Stop it," I muttered, rubbing my face with my hands. I hated how easily she had surrendered to him. I hated how my own body had melted against his chest when he was holding me.
The sharp turn of the key in the lock made me snap my head toward the door. It pushed open, and Hayes walked in.
He looked entirely different tha
