Kael’s POV
I left the house feeling like I could tear down the whole world and build something better with my bare hands. Sienna was amazing. There was no other word for it. She had shocked me, ruined me, healed something in me and then looked at me the next morning like I had a place beside her. I could feel the change in her. She was moving on. Not completely, not perfectly, but enough that the fear in my chest had loosened.
When I came home the evening before and saw my mark bare on her neck, I almost forgot how to breathe. It was as if she knew how badly I had wanted that. How much it had hurt every time she covered it like my claim was something shameful. Then she had come to me. She had made love official before I had the courage to ask for it.
I had been too afraid to touch her t
