Chapter 42

• Killian POV
• We can have it now. The bond, the hunger, the wildness we have both been forced to deny. There is nothing stopping us, not for this moment, not after what Irene handed us, not with the rings cool and solid against our skin. I have spent so long bracing myself, focusing every ounce of control on not knotting her, on not claiming her fully, not letting myself savor any of it. Always careful. Always holding back.
• But now I can. Now, for the first time, I don't have to hold anything back.