Chapter 165

"We need to talk before you make decisions on our behalf." She wasn't snappy anymore, with his heat wrapped around her. The pinpricks of desire, lust only excaerbated because she knew him. Knew the slick power in his body, the hunger aimed at her, felt his kisses.

Noah sighed and moved away.

"Why dont I believe you? That's your only hold up? You don't talk about it, you just shut me out?" He took in her form, the slouched shoulders, yawns she kept hiding under the light smiles. The dark circles under her eyes. He was missing something. The worst part of his lust was the overwhelming tenderness that came with it, to hold her close. He knew, the animal knew, intellectually, he can't protect her from everything. But the inane urge never died down. His wolf pawed at the ground at being blindsided by a problem that could cost him her.

"I have.... I still have nightmares, Noah. You know how he can access my mind if I can access his. The more I try to hold out, the more I have to completel