Beholden teaser--unedited.
Aspen
"I’d been struck
senseless before—that was courtesy of Hawke’s hand on the back of my neck when
I whistled at his mate one time in joking. I’ve been shared shitless—that happened
the first time I came face to face with a grizzly—one of Horace’s pack.
But to be standing
face to face with my mate and have one sentence from her mouth deem me
completely dumbstruck—every muscle stagnant—every breath frozen—was pretty much
the best moment in my life thus far.
I couldn’t count the
time I looked into her eyes because that was the best and worst second in time.
A time that I would
love and regret forever.
“I can take you
somewhere but you need shoes.”
She looked down and wiggled
her toes that looked more like a Renaissance art piece than toes and wiggled
them. “Two minutes.” She turned but before leaving looked at me over her
shoulder. “You’ll be here?”
Did she honestly think
I was going to leave? Probably. Because she trusted me about as far as she could
throw me—at least, that’s how I would feel.
“I’ll be here—always.”
I’d turned into a
cheese dick.
