KADE Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her, felt her. The way she'd looked at me with those brown eyes filled with want, the softness of her skin under my hands, the sound she'd made when I'd kissed her neck. My wolf was purring like some satisfied house cat instead of the feral beast it had been for the past five years. I'd kissed Sera Blackwood, more than kissed her and I didn't regret a single second of it. That should have terrified me, It did terrify me. The last time I'd cared about someone, really cared…she'd died. Lydia had been murdered because of me, because I'd been stupid enough to think love could survive in a world controlled by the Council. But lying there in the dark, all I could think about was the way Sera had laughed after Elena caught us, the way she'd looked at

