ice began echoing around us as they lowered Eagan's body into the ground. The sound mournful in its cry of finality as it reinforced within

days. Now, at the sound of his pickup rattling down the drive, I let out a relieved breath, thankful he had come home. No matter that I wanted to run to him immediately, I was uncertain of how he would react. So, instead, I continued sh

th a shifting of its position, I was finally able to see Declan, and absently noted he needed a haircut. The thick, lustrous, mocha strands cascaded around his shoulders, looking

oss the upper portion of it, drummed in beat with the so

rom what I had wanted. My feelings for Declan had never been sisterly, but over the past year the feelings I did have toward him had developed in

s time for my appointment, I'd returned to the salon and emerged a little while later feeling like a plucked chicken, b

. Using the moonlight filtering in through his window, I'd noted he lay on his back, and with one final deep breath, I slid onto the mattress, then placing a leg over his waist, I'd stradd

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s I felt at facing him again, I dropped the pitchfork and ran

t open, I barely allowed his boots to hi

nst his chest, stuttering out my apology. "I'm...

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nd to her as her protector since her eighteenth birthday and as such, my senses were more acute

al pleasure from her, had. In fact, it had confused the hell out of me. Mating between us was impossible, forbidden, and what I'd felt, what

that night, my own need had increased ten-fold. Anger had spiraled through

off, very off, and with an unshakable knowledge of what I had to do, what was necessary I did until I figured this shit out, I allowed a scowl of distaste to spread acros

d against my heart like a sledgehammer, stealing my breath. Damn, I couldn't breathe, the pain was acute, but co

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e knowledge that the apprehension of seeing him again had been well f

rt, a heart that stuttered and stopped beating befor

an!" Then, carrying pain as I had nev