ARIA POV I was losing my mind. No, I’d probably lost it miles back, somewhere between the silver bars and the moment I tasted his blood. And if, feeling him claiming my mouth, my body wasn’t enough, if feeling every inch of his hard c**k wasn’t enough… I could feel him through the bond too. Not just the surface of his consciousness, not just little pieces of his mind. I could feel everything. His walls were down and he was opening up to me, completely. The way his emotions slammed into mine, raw and unfiltered, the shock still there, the disbelief, the intensity of what had just happened mixing with something deeper, something darker, something that burned just as hot as what was building in me. Love. I let that echo between us, not spoken, not consciously sent, but there all the

