MAEVE POV
He’s here.
He’s finally here…
It had only been perhaps four hours since we’d last seen each other, and it felt like coming home after being days apart.
Xaden was with me again, and everyone else around me ceased to matter in the split second our eyes met.
His dark hair looked ever so slightly windswept from the hunt, his green eyes bright and wild with adrenaline. The faintest whiff of blood brushed past my nose, clinging loosely to his now-dressed figure, but it had all but evaporated with the shedding of his wolfish form.
But none of that mattered.
He was here, and that nervous energy I’d had instantly began to melt away.
With only Burke standing between us, Xaden was close enough that I could touch him if I so wanted to… which, oh, words could not even beg
