“I thought it might have just been me and my not-to-hidden infatuation with you.” Ezra smiled briefly before his eyes went far away, back to hours earlier. “So I f.orced myself to look at everyone else. They were all completely still. The power that radiated from you felt like it washed over us. Some people reached up as if they could touch it.” He shook his head. “It was different than just an Alpha aura; it was something else entirely. I can’t find the words.” I shifted slightly to focus on him, happy to find there really was no p.ain from the movement. “It was old, ancient. It called to me on an instinctual level as if I were basking in the Moon Goddess's light.” One of his shoulders tilted up, and he shook his head more vigorously than usual. “I know it sounds poetic and dumb—” “It

