Evie
Eventually, Badru had put me down. There was nothing on this earth that would get me to admit to him just how much I had loved it, being held in his arms. I was not the ‘swooning’ type of woman, on the outside at least, and I wasn’t about to start now… no matter how impressive it was that my weight seemed nothing to him. Or how fantastic the tingles felt all over my body where his arms touched… or his wonderful scent of nutmeg and cinnamon that made me crave the sweet tree sap aroma of his twin’s presence. Judging by the little smirk on Badru’s impossibly perfect mouth, he knew through our bond his effect on me. His silence on the topic only made it worse, heightening the intensity.
Part way around on our patrol, he stripped down to shift to his wolf. I hadn’t intended on looking b
