~ CASIMIR ~
'I want to watch you get stronger, and stronger and I want to watch you win. I want to be proud to be your mate,. I am proud to be your mate, Cazz-'
I'd already had her, just hours earlier. But when she spoke those words it didn't just light a fire in my belly, it sent a bonfire through my veins. There wasn't time to consider why, because my wolf threw itself forward as if she were prey to be devoured.
I couldn't speak. Could barely think as I descended on her, forced to take a grip on myself or I might actually have bitten her delicious tongue, I was so desperate to consume her.
Something deep in my chest thrummed and flared, ached and called.
And she was answering… Dear God, she was answering. In the bond, in her body-she didn't have a wolf to howl to mine, but something deep within her lifted its voice and sang to me. Calling me closer as she grasped and clung and gasped my name.