Chapter 43

She felt a kind of ecstasy she had never experienced before; pleasure pooling low beneath her abdomen. Her body shivered against his, unsteady yet fierce, as the tension built to a point that made her stomach turn and her chest heave.

Every thump of his heartbeat against her, every rough intake of breath, drove her closer to that breaking edge, and she clung to him, digging in tighter with her nails without knowing it, letting herself go, letting herself be taken by the moment, by the bond, by him.

And in that perfect, suspended second, she teetered at the peak of sensation, legs trembling, nails breaking into his skin further, breath caught in her throat as she came.

Cole collapsed against her, though not letting his weight fall on her. His panting breath against her neck, she blinked at the ceiling above them.

“I love you,” She heard his voice, more hoarse than ever in her ear after he kissed it.

She pretended not to hear it and turned to him. “Is it