Page 246 of Knot What I Expected

Scars interrupt some of the patterns. Marks left by a life that clearly hasn’t been easy.

I want to know those too.

Every tattoo.

Every scar.

Every piece of the man beneath Havoc.

Because that’s the thing that scares me almost as much as everything I told him outside. I don’t just want his body anymore.

I want Rowan. The thought should terrify me.

Instead, my body answers with another hot pulse.

Only this one feels different.

A pulling, dragging sensation starts low in my abdomen.

My breath catches.

I press a hand against my stomach.

That’s... strange.

But then Rowan reaches for his belt, and coherent thought becomes considerably more difficult.

I lick my lips, needy and aching. His gaze immediately locks onto my mouth. The sensation only gets stronger as Rowan undresses.

His chest rumbles with the vibrations of Monster, that ever-present growl rolling through the cabin.

Once upon a time, that sound might have scared me.

Now? Lord help me, it turns me on.

Because I know what lives behind it.

Possession.

Need.

Protection.

Mine.

And somewhere deep inside me, my other nature answers.

Yessss. Mine.

My breath hitches.

Rowan’s head snaps up.

For one intense second, we simply stare at each other.

Did he feel that?

Could the matebond carry something like that?