Rose stared directly into Ace’s blazing golden eyes, refusing to let her gaze drop even as the terrifying pressure of his Alpha presence filled the dim cabin. His hand was a warm, heavy vice around her jaw, his thumb pressing right against the frantic fluttering of her pulse.
The electric heat under her skin was a roaring fire now, standard medical logic completely failing to explain why his touch made her entire body vibrate with a strange, primal energy. "I am not doing anything to you," Rose gasped out, her voice tight but dripping with a stubborn, fierce defiance.
She gripped his massive wrists with her raw, scrubbed hands, trying to push him back, but he didn't move an inch. He was like stone. "I didn’t ask to come to this creepy town. I didn’t ask for you to break into my house las
