Chapter 113 Wounded

• Blake
• The blood, the pain—none of it matters. She’s safe. She’s here. And after everything I just went through, after the sheer terror of thinking I’d lost her, I need her in my arms, against me, as close as I can get her.
• I grab her as if she’s the last lifeline I have. Her lips part in shock as I pull her against me, my hands finding her waist and gripping tight. My mouth crashes down onto hers, fierce, desperate, and raw, and I feel her shiver, her surprise melting into the same frenzied urgency that’s overtaken me.