Elara’s POV
Cade's knot releases after what feels like an eternity and everything he put in me gushes out the second he pulls free. His c*m is warm, and thick. Running down my thighs and dripping onto the forest floor.
He carries me. Through the trees, up a hill, to a log cabin with warm light in the windows. My body is trembling. The bite on my neck throbs in time with my heartbeat and every throb sends heat flooding between my legs.
I'm soaked. Not just from Cade. From the inside out, there’s this slick warmth that keeps coming, like my body is preparing itself.
"You're going into heat," Cade says, kicking the cabin door open. "The mate bond triggers it. Your body is getting ready for the others."
"I don't want the others," I say, but my voice comes out desperate instead of defiant
