They had spent the past two years loving one another, but there was always something between them, something stopping them from going forward. Yes, they loved each other and had claimed one another, but…it never felt like their connection had been completed. Jewel always felt something missing, and that stopped him from fully giving himself to his mate. He didn’t mean his body, because hell, Ezra could take him to heights he didn’t even know were possible and played him like an instrument, but Jewel always held back a part of his heart, afraid of the other shoe dropping, and either Ezra sending him away, or him running because of his own insecurities. His own insecurities. Yeah, that was the biggest problem in their relationship. Because he was afraid of being fooled again, being hurt ag