Riley POV The pain is too much for me to bear. It's causing me to beg, to plead with my mate to make it stop. To do anything to make it stop. He's hesitant. He's too much of a gentleman to take what he fears is too precious to lose and part of me loves him for that, but another part of me is reckless, throwing caution to the wind and wanting the pain to end, no matter what it takes to make it. I need him. I need him to help me. I give another sharp cry and see him wince as he tries to fight the urge to do what his Lycan is urging him to do. "Please" I whimper, staring up at him with a beseeching expression as he wavers "Please, I want you to. I want you to" I repeat when he stiffens and stills. "But..." he begins to argue and I interrupt, another surge of what feels like electricity s