KAEL POV
Six months had passed since that night in the hotel, and everything had changed in ways I never imagined possible.
After I pushed into her room, slamming the door, the tension between us exploded like a supernova. We f****d like animals that night, raw, desperate, her sassy mouth biting back at every growl I made, her body arching into mine like she’d been starving for me too. I knotted her twice, breeding her deep until she was sobbing my name, her nails raking bloody lines down my back. By morning, the mate bond had snapped back into place, stronger, unbreakable. We marked each other again, fresh bites on our necks, sealing what we should have never broken.
When I returned to the palace, still smelling of her, I announced it all. I was marrying Grace Sullivan, the human scien
