I couldn't stop thinking about the kiss.

No matter how many times I attempted to bury it under duty, conflict, or the clang of steel, it persisted, warm and unwanted.

Her mouth.

the subsequent astonishment in her eyes.

The camp was holding its breath.

She made one mistake that broke through the barricades I had constructed around myself for years.

"Alpha!"

The voice snapped me out of it. With a pallid face, my beta, Rhydan, barged into the tent. "You must attend. Right ...