Elena slipped her fingers through the silky strands of Damian's hair, her breath catching as his lips brushed the sensitive curve of her neck. The dim light from the moon filtering through the curtains of his bedroom cast long shadows across his chiseled face, highlighting the feral intensity in his eyes—eyes that glowed with that unmistakable supernatural hunger she had come to crave. His body pressed against hers on the edge of the bed, the heat radiating from his skin like a promise of the storm to come, and she felt the hard muscles of his chest rise and fall with each ragged inhale. The faint scent of pine and musk enveloped her, a heady mix that made her head spin, pulling her deeper into the forbidden web they had woven together. Her heart pounded wildly, a drumbeat of fear and desi
