The fire inside me didn’t just burn anymore it roared, a living, hungry thing, twisting and coiling, pushing at every limit I’d ever known. My claws dug into the scorched earth as my wolf screamed, muscles taut, senses stretched past human, past wolf, into something older, something infinite.

Killian’s chest pressed to mine, grounding, tethering, silver eyes locking on mine with a force that made my chest ache. “Raine,” he growled, breath hot against my ear, voice raw and intimate, ...