Chapter 28
His mouth was warm while my lips were frozen. Streaks of heat radiated outward from our contact, tingling fingers back into flexibility even as my torso curved upward to press against his chest.
Claw was a furnace of pleasure. I slid my good hand around the nape of his neck, pulling, wanting. And he responded in kind, drawing me in so much closer that I thought our bodies might merge.
Careful. I shivered as my father’s voice bubbled up out of memory. This was how everything had started. One kiss, one monster losing control inside me, one hospital visit, then over a decade of mind-fogging pills....
But Claw was as monstrous as I was. My finger skimmed across the raised welt around his neck, the scar that proved his past was even darker than mine.
Claw had a history and a wil
