Draven
I hadn’t known when it happened.
I could have sworn by the goddess herself that I never meant for this pull to take root. Craving Valtira, needing her near, her scent alone enough to unravel every wall I’d built.
Even from across a room it hit me like a storm, shattering whatever control I clung to. Up close? It would end me.
I told myself over and over that there was only one reason she was here: shelter. Protection. She’d fled to my pack because she needed safety from that cursed, raging beast I despised with every drop of blood in me—Zarek.
Even carrying his pup, swelling with the life he’d planted before he discarded her, I should never have crossed that line. Kissing her. Touching her like she already belonged to me.
My mind screamed that I didn’t own her, couldn’t, sho
