Moonlight Sky
The bite of the night wind's caress left Nadia's skin prickling as she leaned with arms against Alpha Damien's balcony railing, gazing up at the infinite sea of stars in the sky above. The moon rode high in the sky, casting down gentle silver light over the land below, a glow that crept over the tall trees along the pack's borders. The far-off laughter and reverberations of the last note of the Moonlight Party still lingered in the air, but here, now, the world was still.
And then she felt him.
A reassuring heat at her back. The gentle brush of fingers against her waist.
She trembled, not with a chill, but with a growing awareness.
"You should be sleeping," Damien's deep, raspy voice breathed in her ear.
Nadia had turned her face, just that, to peer at him from over the
