When Shade's warm, elastic and very sensual lips imperiously covered my mouth, I froze in shock, my whole body became cottony, and my breath caught. And what frightened me most of all was not what might follow, but the realization of what power this man had over me, with his overwhelming frenzied energy that covered me from head to toe. I understood what it was like to fall under the influence of an alpha, and this discovery scared me.

There was not a drop of tenderness in his kiss, he subjugated, teased, explored, and as if he put an invisible brand that was burned into the brain with a red-hot...