SHADE
“I… Blaze promised I could stay here as long as I want,” she said with a frown. “And I’m taking him up on his offer. I won't go, Shade.”
Of course he f*****g did.
She looked at me like she wanted to hurl something at me. Anger and desperation clashed in her eyes.
Her anger... The way she said NO almost instinctively... What did Kylen do to her? Was Blaze and Courtney right all along? I gritted my teeth. Fucki.ng Kylen. What the hell kind of man was he that his own mate feared him?
I saw the flicker of fear, my body tensing. She moved past me, her skin brushing against mine, and my body came alive like it was lit by a fire. This was inconvenient, the way my body always reacted to her closeness. I wanted to... do things that might scare her away. It shamed me... that a woman could
