ALPHA PARTHE.
Fuck...
The Gods...
What was she doing to me?
Despite the iron walls I had meticulously built around my damned heart, I found her creeping in—like a slow-burning fire that I couldn't put out, no matter how hard I tried. She was everywhere, consuming me with an intensity I hadn't anticipated, seeping into the cracks I hadn't even known existed.
I was not a man made for feelings. They had no place in me, and I never thought the mate bond could tear through the cold armor I had worn my entire life. I'd overcome so much—loss, blood, betrayal—but this? This was the one battle I wasn't sure I could win. It was maddening.
This was going to be my undoing.
Her skin, the softness of it, was like silk beneath my fingers. Her scent—a heady mix of innocence and desire, weaving
