The room was dim, but we didn’t need to see everything.
Feeling was enough.
Lean laid me down gently on the sheets, as if I were something precious.
As if, by touching me, something inside him also broke—and completed itself—at the same time.
Kael moved with a fluidity born of instinct. Not thought.
Something more primal.
Something that already knew exactly what to do with me.
I knelt between them, my body still dripping water, my skin ablaze.
Lean moved to my left and brushed my cheek with the tip of his nose, slowly.
Kael took my right hand and placed it over his chest—over his heart.
"You still have time to change your mind, beautiful," Kael said, his voice burning with restraint.
"I don’t want a way out. I want to surrender," I whispered.
"My surrender. Yours. I want this t
