The moment my nose touched his skin, electricity shot through me. The mating bond flared to life, bright and undeniable. I jerked back with a startled yip, but the damage was done. I could feel him now, his emotions bleeding into mine through the connection. Worry. Hope. Longing. And underneath it all, a fierce protectiveness that made my wolf want to lean into his touch.
"There," he said softly. "You feel it now, don't you?"
I did. Goddess help me, I did.
I nodded my wolf head once, a jerky movement that felt awkward in this form. The bond pulsed between us, warm and terrifying and completely unwelcome. This wasn't how I'd imagined my eighteenth birthday going. Hell, this wasn't how I'd imagined my entire life going.
Kyle's face softened with something that looked dangerously close to
