If you like music while you read, try “Meaning” by Nathan Wagner. It’s a beautiful song that has just the right tone for Rig’s heart in this scene!
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~ RIG ~
Touching Cara after she’d accepted the bond, kissing her, was like opening a door to a new world. I could hear her, feel her. Sense every flutter of her heart, and rush of adrenaline that coursed through her.
Heart thundering, hands trembling, my entire body was alight. My insides were at war—the selfish Alpha within me powering forward, determined to take what belonged to it, resolved to show the world, and to own her. Demanded to take her.
But I knew… I knew she walked such a tightrope tonight. Had walked such a tightrope her entire life. This was no wolf to recognize the bond and submit to it. Until tonight she hadn’t even known a supernatural world existed. If I pushed her now, she’d flee. And even though I knew the bond would eventually draw her back, who knew what might happen to her in the interim?