FREYA
“I want you, Freya. I want to claim you.”
For a moment, everything inside me stopped...my thoughts, even my breath. All I could hear was his heartbeat, fierce and steady, pounding through the space between us. His chest brushed mine, his lips hovered a breath away, and the bond that tied us thrummed so loud I thought the whole forest must feel it.
I should have been furious still, after everything.. the shame, the way he kept his distance only to appear when I was falling apart. But I wasn’t. Instead, I was trembling, not with fear, not with anger, but with something deeper.
So I whispered back, my voice soft, my heart raw.
“Then do it.”
The words left me before I could think them through. Maybe it was because, deep down, I knew my strength was tied to him. Or maybe it was bec
