SERAPHINA’S POV
The moonlight shone brightly through my window, casting my room in a silver-drenched glow.
I tried to ditate like Ilsa had taught to do, grounding myself in breath and silence—hoping it would put at ease after the rollercoaster of the last couple of days—but the full moon was oddly rciless tonight.
It tugged at from within, setting every nerve on edge. The steady hum of my wolf’s absence was now replaced by sothing raw and visceral, like my soul rembered the bond even if my body couldn’t.
And underneath that was a...tug. Towards what, I didn’t know.
But the longer I ditated, the stronger I felt it till I could no longer sit still.
I stretched as I uncurled from the floor cushions, trying to shake off the shimr of restless energy coiled under my skin.
ditation always soothed and put at peace.
This session made want to jump off my balcony and howl at the moon.
Is this what the normal wolves felt during the full moon?
I shook my head, reaching for the glass of water on my bedside drawer. I groaned when I saw that it was empty.
“Samantha, do you think you could—”
I paused when I turned and saw that the Oga caretaker Kieran had assigned to sat slumped in the armchair by the door, her head tilted to the side, her breathing soft and even.
I winced, feeling a pang of guilt. She must have stayed on her feet all day, fussing over with als and dicines, gentle hands always at my elbow.
The guilt stopped from waking her. She deserved the rest—and I could get my own damn water.
So, wrapping a robe around , I moved alone, bare feet brushing the cool tiles as I slipped through the hall toward the kitchen, careful not to put too much pressure on my ankle.
The night air clung heavy with salt and hibiscus, and my body felt both too light and too heavy at once.
I pushed open the kitchen door quietly.
And found him there.
Kieran stood at the counter, glass in hand, broad shoulders outlined in the shadows. He turned at the sound of , his eyes catching the moonlight—obsidian, yet sohow impossibly bright.
For a mont, I thought the moon itself had slipped into the kitchen and taken human form.
“What are you doing here?” His voice was low, almost harsh. Then his gaze flicked past toward the hall. “Where’s your Oga?”
I swallowed against the sudden lump that had ford in my throat. “Asleep. I didn’t want to wake her.”
He set the glass down harder than he needed to. “She was supposed to take care of you. You’re not supposed to be on your feet.”
I rolled my eyes. “C’mon, the doctor said I was fine, and I can barely feel the pain now.”
His jaw clenched. “When I give orders, I expect them to be followed.”
He pushed away from the counter. I lifted a hand before he could storm off and tear a new one into poor Samantha.
“Don’t.” The word ca out softer than I ant, but it stopped him. “She’s worked hard all day. I’m fine. I can walk to the kitchen for water without incident.”
His eyes narrowed, and he looked like he wanted to argue further, but when I didn’t break eye contact, he exhaled softly, and his body relaxed.
Silence filled the kitchen, thick with the hum of the refrigerator and the steady echo of the ocean outside.
A mory—of another kitchen in another house on another moonlit night, just and Kieran—rose up in my mind.
‘I want a divorce.’
I shoved it down, down, down.
Kieran leaned back against the counter, and I tried to ignore his burning gaze as I filled my glass and turned to leave.
But I’d barely taken two steps forward when my toe caught against the lip of the tile.
The room tilted, my breath caught in my throat—
—and suddenly I was in Kieran’s arms.
His arm banded around my waist, pulling tight against the unyielding strength of his chest.
The world spun, then steadied, and suddenly all I could hear was the rapid staccato of my pulse and the slow but uneven rhythm of his breath.
My palms pressed against him, the warmth of his body sinking straight into mine.
“Careful,” he murmured, his voice a low rasp, warm against my temple.
I should have stepped back, should have pushed away, but...
That damned pull between us—the one I’d tried so hard to bury with resolve and sheer force of will—surged like a live wire, coursing from his grip at my waist to every nerve in my body.
I tilted my head back to et his eyes, and the look there unraveled .
There was hunger, raw and exposed, and it mirrored the very thing I was trying to smother.
“Kieran—” My voice cracked, no more than a whisper, half warning, half plea.
He didn’t let finish. His mouth found mine with a force that stole the ground out from under .
The kiss was searing, desperate, but threaded with sothing else—sothing that throbbed through my veins. A heat that was both alien and achingly familiar.
Kieran’s nearness amplified it until I felt as though my skin was vibrating against his.
I gasped against him, but the sound only opened further to him. His tongue swept against mine, stealing what little air I had left, and I was lost. Completely lost.
The glass slipped from my hand, shattering against the floor, but I barely heard it.
My hand now free, I clutched his shoulders desperately, nails biting into muscle as every inch of responded, traitorous and greedy.
The taste of him filled , and as his tongue slid against mine, I lted into it, into him, even as so frantic part of scread to resist.
But it was nothing more than a muted whisper, getting quieter the longer I stayed in Kieran’s arms.
The world narrowed—his hands framing my face, sliding down to my neck, his body pressing back until my spine brushed the edge of the counter.
The cool surface grounded for half a second, but then his lips trailed lower, and my skin burned where his hands gripped my waist, where his mouth dragged down my throat, sucking bruises into skin I knew I shouldn’t let him touch.
His hands slid to my hips, pulling flush against him. One slipped behind, cupping the curve of my ass and pulling against the thick, rigid length straining in his pants.
My breath hitched at the unmistakable hardness pressing into , and the pull roared louder, drowning reason in its wake.
My thighs clenched, my pussy throbbing with raw want. I could feel moisture gathering just from the friction, my body betraying with every pulse.
“Kieran.” His na tore out of , ragged, but it no longer sounded like resistance. It sounded like surrender.
He groaned like it undid him, head dipping lower, teeth grazing my collarbone.
He undid the robe, and one of his hands slid beneath my night shirt, and calloused fingers skimd my ribs, then closed greedily around my bare breast.
He pinched my nipple hard between his thumb and forefinger, and my back arched, my pussy clenching around nothing.
I wanted to stop. I wanted to keep going. I wanted both, at once.
My fingers tangled in his hair, dragging him closer, deeper. His kiss turned ravenous, claiming, and I matched it with a hunger that terrified .
His hands road, greedy, mapping every inch as though he needed to learn . When he pressed back, lowering toward the floor, I didn’t resist.
My legs parted instinctively, and he settled between them. His weight caged in, his hands braced at either side of my head, but it wasn’t confining—it was consuming.
His mouth was on mine again, then lower, teeth nipping at the tender flesh between my neck and shoulder, tongue soothing the bite until I was gasping.
Heat pooled low in my stomach, my body aching with a want I hadn’t felt in...
Ever. I hadn’t felt such world-tilting hunger ever.
It raced through , threatening to consu with every brush of his lips, every roll of his hips against mine—grinding that massive cock against my soaked cunt through the thin barrier of cloth—making the world blur at the edges.
I cried out, shaless, my hips rolling up to et his thrusts.
My back arched, and a guttural moan ripped out of when he tore my night shirt open and fastened his lips around one of my peaked nipples.
I felt tears at the corner of my eyes as I threaded my hands into his hair, tugging tightly while his tongue slid against my nipples.
“Kieran!” I gasped, feeling the ache impossibly grow.
He groaned out sothing I couldn’t hear, his other hand slipping down to the waistband of my shorts.
My hips instinctively canted, chasing the heat of his touch. When he slipped his hands into my shorts and pressed his palm flat against the apex between my thighs, I thought I would black out from the sudden explosion of sensation.
My breathing turned into a harsh, ragged sound as Kieran’s mouth found my other breast, as he slipped aside the crotch of my damp underwear and pressed a finger against my swollen clit.
“Fuck!”
I thought the tortured hiss ca from , but then Kieran lifted his head, and I looked into the swirling black pools of hunger, his swollen lips parted as if in disbelief.
“You’re so wet,” he said, his voice thick with awe.
I could understand why he was so surprised. Kieran and I had had sex before, but not like this—not this hot and desperate and hungry.
Never like this.
I lifted my hips, seeking out his touch desperately. “Please,” I panted.
Sothing flickered in his eyes, and then his mouth was on mine again, devouring. Each kiss was more urgent, more consuming than the last.
I clutched at his shoulders, my fingers digging into the hard lines of muscle, as though anchoring myself against a tide I couldn’t hope to withstand.
He swallowed my desperate gasp with his mouth, groaning like a man undone as he pressed his thumb against my clit, his forefinger, tentatively pressing against my—
“Lady Sera?”
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