Ares stepped back from me again and brushed his hand across my cheek softly.
“You should try to sleep.”
I looked over to the furs and blushed.
“I…”
“We have a long way to go, white wolf. You’ll need the energy.”
I was shivering slightly as I stood in front of him and it did nothing to help with the fact I wanted him desperately. I was cold and fragile, and he was warm and comforting.
I wanted to pull him close and to feel his body warm against mine again. I wanted to fall asleep next to him, not alone on the furs I had been left to die on.
I felt that tension between us again; the same feeling that had driven me to tear at his clothes as if I was on heat again and he was the only thing that could satisfy me.
I had never ached for someone that way. I had never been aroused without t
