Page 80 of The Cursed Wolf King

Eve gripped my arms, her touch sparking an answering fire in me. Emotions poured through the bond, a torrent I couldn’t control—anguish, guilt, longing. Her pain was mine, twisting in my chest like a blade.

I pulled her closer, the storm outside forgotten, and let the bond speak the words neither of us could say. Our instincts took over. My wolf reveled in the sensation of her hands gripping me, as if for life itself.

I need her.

I tangled my fingers in her long, dark hair, the feeling of it on my arm sending a shiver down my spine and lighting me up. I pulled her into my arms and she wrapped hers around me. Blood rushed through me faster than I could handle and I became lightheaded. My cock hardenedagainst my jeans, as every thought of her being this close consumed me.

The rain poured down, the sound filling the bungalow, but my hearing became attuned to only one thing. Her breath. The pounding rain, the shaking windowpanes, my own racing heartbeat—they fell away as her hot breath cascaded down my neck.

“Eve,” I whispered, knowing words would never be enough.

I know.She spoke to me through our bond. My wolf awakened and howled in delight at the sound of her voice resonating through my bones.Me too.

I came undone.

A moan slipped out of my parted lips, and I gently pushed the back of her head to bring her face to mine. I kissed her—no, Iconsumedher—with every ounce of my soul. I needed to feel her as close to me as two people could be.

Her tongue searched mine and I gave it to her, our mouths melding, heat and jagged breaths moving between us. She lifted her arm, grabbing the back of my neck to pull me closer, and I put my hands around her waist.

She wrapped her legs around me, the core of her pressed against the top of my cock, and I moaned into her mouth. The scent of her arousal wafted through the air and I was immediately drunk, my wolf ready to claim every inch of her beautiful body with reckless abandon.

But the man needed more than her body.

“Eve.” I swallowed, my throat so dry, the words were stuck. “Eve, I have to know if you want this.”

“You can’t tell?” Her eyes flashed, and I’ll be damned, I was sure I saw her wolf again.

“I don’t just mean like that. I want you—I want you so badly I could tear this whole house down to claim you. But it means nothing if that’s as far as our bond goes.” She adjusted herself in my lap, her stomach pressed against my abs. “Eve, I can’t bear to have you this close to me if I can’t claim you. I need you. I want you. Damn it, Eve, I love you with every fiber of my soul and if I can’t have you now—haveallof you—I’ll spend my life searching for a way to convince you of it.”

I was pleading, but I didn’t care. She was the only woman for me,forever. And if she couldn’t be with me, if she couldn’t surrender to our bond…

I didn’t know what would become of me.

“Logan.” Her fingertips caressed my cheek. “The part of me that has only known how to fight, how to survive—it tells me that being here with you is the worst kind of danger.”

Please don’t stop there.

“But I don’t care. You’re dangerous. I’m dangerous. Together, we might completely self-destruct.”

I leaned closer, my cheek against hers. “Or we might conquer the world.”

“How can you say that? You don’t know…” Her voice broke.

I took her face in my hands. “I knew everything I needed to know in the first moment I saw you. The rest will come. I will protect you forever, if you let me. Because, from the first moment you appeared in my life, whether I wanted it or not, youwere mine.”

She pulled back, ever so slowly. “You believe that?” Her eyes searched mine, wishing it to be true, but she didn’t have to stay in that place. Because I believed it. Believed it more than anything else in this world.

I kissed her again, pressing my lips into her with a fury like the world was crumbling around us. If we could fulfill this bond, if I could claim her the way I was destined to, the way my wolf and the Shadow Moon Goddess herself demanded… we could begin to set the world right again.

With her, I could doanything.

“I don’tbelieveit,” I said. “I know it.”

A hint of a smile danced across her lips. “Do you know it enough for both of us?”

I growled. “For the entire fucking world.”

She pressed her lips to mine, more desperate than before. Her desire struck me like a runaway train and I went weak at the knees. Because now I could tell. Her desire wasn’t only the irresistible hunger that resided in her core. She was fighting and losing the battle to pretend it wasn’t so, but I knew it—scented it on her—my wolf smug with certainty.

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