Tala’s POV We officially accepted each other in front of all our friends and family, and I felt totally intoxicated with happiness. I knew that I had done the right thing. I didn’t understand why or how, but it was the right thing. When we crawled into bed, it also felt right to be there. After officially accepting him, it was as though all my reservations from before and all my doubts were wiped away, and we were starting on a clean slate. We lay in the dark looking at each other and I felt my wolf pushing me to kiss Ridley, but I had been holding back from many physical things with him so that I was suddenly nervous. My breath caught in the back of my throat. “May I kiss you?” Ridley’s voice was filled with lust and before I could even think about it, I nodded, and our lips touched. We