[KAEL'S POV]
Her wrist felt like fragile porcelain under my fingers, but her pulse was a wild, untamed river.
I held her there, her skin burning against mine, my wolf baring his teeth at the back of my mind in sheer, frustrated satisfaction. For three weeks, she had smelled like a sterile laboratory wall, a flawless chemical illusion designed to keep my nose out of her business. But the moment I touched her, the sheer kinetic heat of her body threatened to melt the blocker right off her skin.
Every frantic beat of her heart echoed straight into my palm, a frantic rhythm that completely betrayed the icy composure she was trying to project. The friction of our skin was generating a dizzying warmth, a localized heatwave that seemed to warp the very air between us. My wolf was pacing the ab
