Caden's POV
Could she be any more breathtaking? Any more intoxicating? Watching my brother kiss her should've filled me with jealousy, stirred the instinct to defend what was mine. Instead, it ignited something deeper, something darker. A heat that seared through me.
*"Because she's happy, and that makes her ours,"* my wolf reasoned, calm and resolute.
No other woman had ever mattered to me. Caleb could have pursued whoever he wanted, and I wouldn't have cared. But Lily wasn't just anyone. She wasn't even in the same universe as the women we'd known before.
Whether she realized it or not, the way she looked at us spoke volumes. Her eyes burned with a hunger that mirrored our own, like she was teetering on the edge of surrender, caught in the same fire that consumed us. She wanted us
