ALPHA KONAN'S POV

My eyes widened in shock.

"What?! I exclaimed softly. What did you just say?

Madeline stared at me. Her once innocent eyes were now wild and desperate. A hunger burned in them— a hunger that mirrored my own.

"You heard me, Alpha Konan," she murmured with a hoarse voice filled with urgency. "Claim me!"

I curled and uncurled my fist beside me. Every fiber of my being scorched, my control stretching impossibly thin.

"I think I will go insane if you don't," she exhaled sharply, her chest rising and falling with uneven breaths. "I want your lips on mine, your hands on my skin. I ache for...