DOM
She offered me her neck.
Soft, bare, flushed with heat—and willingly bared to me beneath the glowing rain of stars.
I could barely breathe.
The bond between us had always been fierce, threaded with heat and need and something deeper I hadn't dared name until her. But now, with the sky alight and her body wrapped in my sheets, my mark not yet on her skin… I felt feral.
I felt home.
My hand shook as I touched her jaw, guiding her to look at me again.
"You're sure?" I asked, though the wolf in me already knew the answer.
She didn't even hesitate. "I've never been more sure of anything in my life."
That was all it took.
The shift wasn't full, but it surged inside me—the beast rising to the surface. My canines lengthened, and my pupils went wide. My hands grew hotter, my skin prickling with energy. Every instinct I had, every ancestral memory, whispered the same thing:
Mate. Mate. Mate.
