CASSIAN

Heat slammed into me. 

White-hot and blinding ripped through me, not pain but power. 

The kind that claimed space inside my body like it had always belonged there.

My knees nearly buckled, breath punching out of my chest as her mark burned into my skin. 

Then the bond locked.

Suddenly I wasn’t standing alone in my body anymore. There was her heat braided through my pulse, her presence threaded through my thoughts, steady and overwhelming all ...