BELLE

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I had fallen asleep. After all the protesting I’d done, insisting to the wolf that I wasn’t going to fall asleep, I had. The second thing I noticed was that I was wrapped around another human’s body—a male human.

And he was running his hand up and down my back in a soothing manner.

“Grayson?”

He kissed my head. “Yeah, beautiful, it’s me.”

I noticed that I was holding on to his body like a koala to a tree.

I quickly untangled myself from him and sat up a little, feeling my face heat up.

I looked at...