The air grew colder, and on the nights that it snowed, she and Caim would sleep in her bedroom. He’d had tanned animal hides hung over her window to shelter them from the bad weather, but the cold always managed to find its way in. During the short days, she would dream of...
She stared at the dying fire, sleep eluding her. The alpha slept beside her, keeping her close in a possessive hold, his hand splayed over her abdomen. Thoughts, images, and emotions crowded her head, no matter how many times she tried to make her mind go blank. She kept c...
For one, disoriented moment, she thought that her mother was there with her, and she sat up on the furs, looking around the room in confusion. She was alone, which was unusual. The spot next to her was still warm, and she recognized Caim’s scent still lingering in the room. In a small crevice in...
Erik peered up at Sten through one half-opened eye. “I was not aware that I took orders from you.” The central chamber was unusually empty that day. The pack had spent the morning high on sweets, only to collectively crash midday. Most had retired to their respective rooms...
It seemed that every time he closed his eyes she was there. With a brush of her lips and her gentle touch, she would promise to fulfill his every need, yet he would always wake feeling hard and hollow. Not tonight. Tonight she lay beneath him in the flesh, willing and wanting him just as badly ...
When she was a child and her mother left her, Sarah didn’t kick or scream or cry, she just accepted it and moved on. In junior high, when a bee stung her cousin Wendy, it was Sarah, not the camp counselor, who had the presence of mind to administer Wendy’s EpiPen. When she had crashed her car in ...