10
RAND
My mate was magnificent.
Too magnificent.
Sprawled out bare beneath me, her dark red hair a wild curtain around her head, her green eyes dark with lust, she had my control hanging by a goddamn thread.
I was ready to mark her right here, right now. My teeth were long in my mouth, dripping with the serum that would forever embed my scent into her skin. It was everything I could do not to lose control. She didn’t know anything about shifters.
She deserved the truth, the choice to become mine. There was no question she would be mine, but it couldn’t be now. We had the rest of our lives together, and from what I’d learned from the guys who’d all found human mates, I wasn’t going to f**k this up like they had. At first. Sure, they’d gotten their s**t together, but I wasn’t going to
