Chapter 219

• The hardness in his eyes softened and he released her, leaning back against the tree trunk as she dropped her hands from around his neck and stroked them slowly over the silk of his black shirt. The glow receded from his eyes though the naked desire remained. "For a moment I thought you'd been foolish enough to mate with a wolf," he drawled softly, his expression making it perfectly clear that he wouldn't have been happy with that scenario.
• "Wolves don't know how to play," she quipped lightly, rising gracefully to pad lightly along the branch to its narrowest point.
• "Just as well because I don't share my toys," he said softly, his voice full of possessiveness, his eyes boring into her back.