I felt sore and satisfied and sleepy all at the same time. I wrapped my arms and my legs around Shane's lean, muscular body and delighted in the sensual tingle that connected us. I vaguely had that thought that this is what it could have been, should have been with Nolan, but I quickly brushed it away like cobwebs in my memory. Nolan was no more than a bad, blurred piece in my past now. My soul was now completely wrapped up in Shane. Even my inner wolf, who had been silent and traumatized since the day that Nolan attacked us in the hall, was now making contented noises in my head. We were home in his arms, and for the moment, everything was right with the world. I fell asleep to the sound of his steady heartbeat under my ear.
I don't know how long we slept, but night had fallen whe
