Chapter 21

"I know," I breathed. "But it's the only way."

"I don't like that you'll be going, period. I like having you here. Believe it or not, you're much better company than Grady." Archer laughed, such a light, effortless sound.

"That ray of sunshine? I don't believe it." I grinned but it didn't stick for long. "I have to go, though, Archer. But I hope that this won't be the last time I see you."

"Me too." He leaned in and grazed his lips across mine, hardly a touch at all, but enough to charge my heart into double-time.

My first kiss with a wolf shifter. My first kiss period. It had both scattered my thoughts and sharpened them around this moment in time.

Despite my inexperience, I knew how the basics worked from some of the books Jade had charmed the librarian in Margin into checking out, the books hidden behind the library desk and not on the shelves.

I leaned in for more. Mercifully, Archer obliged.