KAI POV
I woke slowly, the way you do when you’ve been cocooned in warmth too long and the world outside feels like a foreign thing. The first sensation wasn’t the sheets or the faint morning light slipping past the curtains—it was Dalton.
His fingers drew lazy circles on my arm, featherlight, dragging goosebumps across my skin. Every caress sent sparks rushing along my veins, all the tingles of the mate bond erupting like tiny lightning bolts beneath the surface. Only… they weren’t the same tingles I’d grown used to.
No. These were sharper. Louder. Multiplied.
Because something had changed since last night. Since Derrick and Dalton had marked each other, binding us into something unholy, raw, and terrifyingly whole. Now, when Dalton touched me, it wasn’t just him. It was Derrick too.
