SHADE POV -
She begged for it.
She didn't just want the Alpha. She wanted the part of me I buried for her sake. Maybe now, with Alpha blood finally starting to stir in her veins, she felt the difference. Maybe she finally understood. I hadn't given her what instinct wanted. I gave her care. I gave her restraint. Because I didn't want to hurt her.
She wasn't asking anymore. She was demanding it. Every savage part of me she could rip to the surface. Even the part I didn't trust myself to release.
I froze over her.
Everything inside me fought to hold the line. The Alpha in me raged, clawed, and pounded against my ribs. It wanted out. It wanted to pin her, take her, claim her in every brutal, permanent way it knew. It wanted to feel her lock down around me while I marked her so deep she
