Aaron
The office is quiet.
Too quiet.
I close the door and lean back against it. The Alpha floor hums faintly beyond these walls, the low murmur of footsteps, doors opening and closing, voices softened by distance.
But here?
The silence presses.
Shay stirs beneath my skin, restless. The bond hums low, sharp beneath my ribs, weaving desire and frustration together.
He wants me to reach out to Reza.
To claim.
To close the distance that keeps tightening every time we pass each other in the halls.
I can’t.
Not now.
Not when one wrong move could turn her into a target.
I close my eyes and breathe.
It doesn’t help.
My mind supplies the image anyway.
The soft tilt of her head when she laughs. The warmth of her skin when she passed me in the hallway.
I lifted my hand.
Almost touc
