“The bond isn’t the only thing tying me to them. There’s something darker underneath.”
The next night the forest felt wrong.
I could feel Kade through the bond—restless, prowling somewhere on patrol—but my own body wouldn’t settle. My skin prickled, my heartbeat erratic. Something in the air vibrated with danger.
I stepped out onto the balcony, letting the cold moonlight spill over me, a thin silk robe clinging to my body. The fire inside me from the night before hadn’t burned out; if anything, the memory of his hands, his mouth, the way he’d claimed me so deeply I could still feel him—only made the ache sharper.
But that wasn’t why I couldn’t sleep.
Someone was watching me.
My eyes swept the treeline. Shadows shifted. A branch creaked. Then—
A voice, low and smooth, from the darkne
