I stood frozen, his words wrapping around me like chains I couldn’t break. The room felt smaller now, as if the air had thickened, pressing in on me, stealing the breath from my lungs. Alpha Evon stood in front of me, his dark gaze steady, unyielding, like he was daring me to deny him.
I should have, but I didn’t.
Instead, I swallowed the lump in my throat, my voice betraying me as I spoke. “What do you want from me?”
A smirk tugged at the corner of his lips. His gaze pierced through my soul, burning with a desire that made me shiver. “You already know the answer to that.”
His voice was rich, like velvet draped over steel, and I hated how it made my stomach flip, how it sent a rush of heat through my veins. I had never met anyone like him—someone who could command a room with just a lo
