GRACE POV
* sucker for pain - Lil Wayne, Imagine Dragons and Wiz Kalifa*
I wasn’t a virgin.
But I might as well have been, because nothing I’d ever known, nothing I’d ever felt before, compared to Connor.
Everything with him felt new, raw, electric, terrifying, and perfect.
Watching him come undone earlier had ruined me in ways I didn’t even understand yet. It had stripped me bare, rewired something deep inside me. And now, hearing him speak those words, pouring his heart out without fear or restraint, and then ask to complete the bond even if I told him to…
It was half madness, half fate.
But mostly, it felt right.
So right it made my chest ache.
The air between us was heavy, thick with the scent of steam and skin. His confession still lingered, echoing in the quiet room, settlin
