“To heighten your senses, and of course to wonder what I will do to you next.” My breath came in short spurts but I was ready and eager for him to take me, to own me. I was near tears, and I didn’t understand how the salty fluid had found its way to my eyes. I wasn’t in pain, but I felt like I was about to explode into a hundred pieces of broken glass and only Zane could hold me together. Just like I remembered from the bride protocol simulation, Zane’s heated flesh pressed to my back and his deep, commanding voice filled my ear. “Will you accept my claim, mate? Or do you wish to name another primary mate?” Zane’s voice was thick with l**t, and the explosion of his need blasted through my collar like a blowtorch. I’d never felt this, never felt him. At last he was letting me in, showing

