~HAZEL~

Ashton was so close I could feel the heat rolling off his skin, the frantic thud of his heart against my cheek.

His arms locked around me like iron bands, pressing me into the hollow of his throat while he dragged his jaw across my hair, my neck, the bare slope of my shoulder, anywhere he could reach without letting go.

He was trying to drown me in his scent, trying to do whatever it was to cancel out the scent the Lustfangs had locked onto.

I breathed him in, overwhelmed ...