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It was so insane, so crazy that I felt this way about a virtual stranger

But I knew enough about being mated to a shifter to know that this was unavoidable, undeniable I couldn’t fight it Because if I did it would just get stronger, h that was no hardship

Walking away from Maddix wasn’t an option I wanted to take

Hu had been explained to us so we accepted it, knew that this was the world And ether in harer, faster, and healed quicker in their human forms than e

In fact, most shifters preferred solitude, wanted to live away fro

I thought about that day in school all those years ago e’d learned about theof shifters and humans I had to assume it was this intense whether it o shifters, or two different species But

Maybe it was different for each person

My body lit up again as I thought about hoe’d talked about the need, the desire Hoas soer the more time we spent away from our mate

God, no truer words had ever been spoken

Here I was, thinking about high school at the age of twenty-three because I was standing in front ofdesperately to control myself and find a distraction for the way Maddix watched me

My bear shifting mate

“I can see you’re thinking pretty hard there, Ali” He htly downcast as he watched me, stalked me

And that was exactly what he was doing right now as he moved closer Once he was a foot froht in rew considerably thicker, the heat increasing I felt beads of sweat lining the valley between my breasts, felt my panties become even more saturated

“The door is fixed,” he said huskily

I nodded “Thank you,” I whispered, although I didn’t knohy I was thanking hi