After I'd handled what was left of Moonlight Pack, I flew with the Lycan King back to the royal capital.
The whole flight, his hand stayed wrapped around mine. He didn't let go once.
That electric current under my skin,it was sharper, more immediate than anything I'd felt in seven years with Alpha Ryan.
"Aria," he said, breaking the silence. "Do you know why your wolf reacted to me that day in the medical suite?"
My pulse stuttered. "Why?"
The corner of his mouth lifted. He leaned in close, his breath ghosting across my ear, and his voice dropped to something low and almost reverent.
"Because I'm the bastard you've been searching for your entire life."
He let a thin ribbon of his Alpha aura unfurl between us. The unmistakable pressure of a king. And underneath it, something more int
