CAUIS
Her laugh is bitter, shaky. “So that’s what this is? You buy and sell freedom like a drug and now you think you can buy me?”
I tilt her chin higher, forcing her to meet my eyes. “I don’t share,” I growl, voice rough, wolf bleeding into the edges of the words. “Not with them, not with anyone. If you’re mine, you’re only mine. And the sooner you stop fighting it, the sooner you’ll see I’m right until I decide so.”
Her lips part again, trembling, her protest dying before it can form. I dip my head lower, brushing my mouth over hers in the faintest graze, teasing. My control is hanging by threads, every instinct in me screaming to claim her, to bite, to brand, to end this battle.
“You feel it too,” I murmur against her lips. “So tell me, Kaia… will you keep lying, or will you let me
