Their Burning Touch on my Skin

M

e crowd as Ace looks

shivering as the adrena

ing as I hold my burned forearm, the

g expression morphing into a frown. "How th

zes, making me

llen asleep du

pass by, the landscape slowly transforming

and I take a deep sigh, getting Kai's attention on me. "Everything alr

m. "Everything is alrigh

t?" He asks, his eyes already direct

lint from my dress as I change the

he calls him, is quite a

it properly as we are both too shy to address it, apparently, but we have spent our entire life to

fferent from how

s like sailing

your jaw on the floor and your heart

s soon as he had the opportunity to, he stole my first kiss,

, and he promised to make me his Luna, even if

onth later,

for pr

eing the mate of both of them. Aunt Artemisia had five, so I prayed so much to the

for us it is more complicat

ears old, and as I'm already twenty-five, the Elders

bout it just like they ar

g, but I'm doing my best to grit my teeth to keep going as Aunty Artemisi

et the Judge because of Serena," he looks at the ceiling as he throws his head into

aybe Ryder could take over. He did turn twenty-one, didn'

and cocky enough to want the title. Ryder, just like me, has always had the

t need to have a bad conscience for taking a potential titl

f as she follows my gaze with s

ake any much longer," I

yes with the red speckle borin

'm so sorry, Sese. I will ask them to make us go on

at the palace in a confusion of emotions. We get out of the car, and I have to hold Serena bac

ur interlocutor on this matter," Kai greets the Judge, holding

heard a lot about you, and I'm h

speaks, the other Judges standin

fter the introduction, leading us to our qu

ession remains unmoved as he mind-links me, "Don't worry. I'll get tha

et Serena. I push her gently through the hallways and as I'm too agitated by

lowly, making me chuckle as we indeed hav

oduced herself as the lady-in-waiting appointed to us, le

o

ur-poster bed and starts jumping on it

ng my attention back to her. "I'll let you settle in in peace and will come

, and we do a curtsy practically simultane

she lets herself fall onto the bed

urn around to open the door more to t

different closets as the front door opens and closes with a bang. I lay down the pile

r alone to reach her brother who must have resolved th

as I stand in front of what cou

efore me, his muscular arms covered in tattoos. My brain blacks out, my thoughts just runni

he asks, making his deep

, running past me and

his gruff expression morphs int

wish I

e again?" he asks as he sets hi

so m

ggle with actually speaking much

utter. "You have some audacity to show up like this. Did you forget all

the door opens again. Kai entering the quarters with his hea

g his head slowly as his eyes w

, brot

uddenly my heart stills. Their scents blen

tirs awake, making an excruci

nd, making me black out as my wolf aw