Kane I was over the f*****g moon. That was the only way to describe the euphoria coursing through my veins as I watched Simone sleep beside me. Her touch, her essence, her spirit, her stubborn personality, just herself, was driving me goddamn insane in the best possible way. Every breath she took sent waves of satisfaction through my lycan. The way she’d melted under my hands, the sounds she’d made when I’d claimed her, the trust in her eyes when she’d accepted my mother’s ring, it was all burned into my memory with perfect clarity. I needed a lifetime by her side to fill the constant need to be with her that was nagging at me. Hell, a lifetime probably wouldn’t be enough. I wanted centuries, millennia, whatever the gods would grant me as long as it meant having her in my arms. I didn

