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Everything was amplified: her warmth, her heartbeat, and the way her breath hitched when I pressed my forehead to hers as the bond pulsed with every touch and every shared breath.
This wasn’t hunger; this was recognition, the universe finally saying yes. My hands slid over her back, my forehead resting against hers for a breath before my lips drifted lower, drawn by something deeper than want as they found the curve of her neck again.
The world narrowed as her pulse fluttered, fast and trusting. Something sharp and instinctive flared inside me, and a pressure bloomed behind my teeth… a pull so sudden it stole the breath from my chest.
‘Sink your canines in.’
The thought wasn’t mine. It rose from somewhere old and feral, wrapped in certainty and need, and my jaw tightened before I
