I tried to hold back. I did. For half a second, maybe. Then her mouth found my neck. Right over the place she had chosen. Her teeth sank into me. Pain flashed. Pleasure followed so hard my spine arched off the ground. I came with her name on my lips, a moan, a plea and a f*****g curse. The world burst open. Venom burned through my veins, her mark sealing into my flesh like a key turning in a lock that had waited too long. Cerberus, my wolf, threw himself against the bond with a howl that shook through my bones. My fangs dropped. I did not think. Could not. Her neck was there, offered by the way she had folded over me, by the way her body clung to mine while mine emptied into hers. The place where my mark belonged pulsed under her skin, calling so loudly I could not hear the s

