Chapter 134. End of Book 1

Her smile widened as she reached up, and with unexpected strength, ripped the T-shirt from his body.

“Not nearly as beautiful as you,” she murmured, her fingers tracing the scars that crisscrossed his torso. He shuddered, his fangs extending and his body hardening in all the right places.

“I’ve always heard that love is blind. Now I’m certain of it.”

“Don’t play coy.” Her fingers trailed a path of fire down the hard planes of his stomach, popping the button of his jeans and easing down the zipper. Rhye growled in approval. She was a woman in charge. And he liked it. 

“You know very well you make women all hot and bothered.”

Him?

Well, hell. If she wanted to believe he was some sort of babe magnet, then so be it.

Kicking off his heavy boots, Rhye rid himself of the jeans and climbed on the bed to pull Lily into his arms. He had once cursed a fate that offered nothing but cruelty and stark loneliness. Now he could only marvel at his extraordinar