The heat between them was unbearable, an all-consuming fire that left no room for hesitation, no space for rational thought. Their bodies pressed together, a tangle of limbs and heated skin, their breath mingling as they teetered between waking and dreaming, instinct overriding reason. The mate bond surged between them like a living force, unrelenting and inescapable, drawing them into each other as if the universe itself demanded their collision.
Kaius’s hand traced a slow, reverent path along Raya’s back, his fingers trembling slightly as if he, too, was caught in the whirlwind of sensation, caught between the need to touch and the fear of losing control.
But control had already been lost, shattered the moment their lips met, in the moment their bodies responded with a hunger neither
