Chapter 25

The floor moved beneath us, our weight colliding with the magic that had left my body as we fell to the ground.

The ground uprooted itself, gathering dust, grass, and dirt into a cloud of ruins that were mine to make. My partner and I merged in a way that shouldn't have felt so intimate as I trembled and fell, the after-effects of my powers prickling at my skin and filling me with weakness and chaos. I pressed myself into his flesh, bracing my hands against him while I struggled with his wolflike mood.

His savage snarl shook me, and I could feel my thighs straining against his...