I clung to him through it all, reveling in the euphoric waves licking at my core, causing me to spiral into unending bliss.
Lorcan.
Kyra,he returned, his voice holding a note of reverence as he kissed me soundly.Mate.
I shivered, my arms looping around his neck once more. They’d fallen during my climax, my body having gone through some sort of spiritual episode. It was as though I’d died and come back to life, but only in the best way.
His tongue grounded me, assuring me that I’d never actually left, that it’d all been just a pleasurable affair.
Our mingled scents reached my nose, my nest feeling more complete than ever before.
I inhaled deeply and sighed.Evergreen. Alpha. Oranges. Dead roses.
My brow furrowed on that last one.
Wait…My eyes flew open, my limbs freezing.
“What is it?” Lorcan asked, his handsome face hovering right above mine, his knot still lodged deep within me.
I opened my mouth. Then closed it.
And inhaled again.
Dead roses.
They were gone. They weren’t here.How…?
I searched my mind, my wolf beginning to pace, agitated.
“I—” A sharp pang tugged at my heart, causing my body to jolt beneath Lorcan as my shadowing ability attempted to engage against my will.
My eyes widened, my arms tightening around Lorcan.
No!I shouted, fighting the urge to disappear.No, no, no!
Lorcan growled, his power wrapping around me in a telekinetic hug that forced me to remain. But my mind was insistent.
Come to me,I heard Fare whisper.Come to me right fucking now.
No,I snarled back at him, my mind fracturing beneath his command and my body’s inability to comply.
Now!Fare demanded.
Everything faded in and out, light and dark, my eyes focusing and unfocusing.
No,I whimpered, my mind at war with my body, at war with Fare, at war with my very existence.
Lorcan said something above me, but I couldn’t hear him. I could barely breathe. The need to shadow was consuming my being. Yet I couldn’t. Lorcan wouldn’t let me. Yet Fare demanded it.
I suddenly felt strained.
Caught between two battling Alphas.
Two conflicting demands.
Two strong personalities.
Two ancient beings.
