The door slid open behind her, and she felt Kaden's presence like a resonant thrum in her very soul. Turning, she drank in the sight of him, impossibly magnificent in his transformed state.

"You're a vision, my love," he rumbled, his eyes blazing with undisguised reverence.

Elena felt a frisson of delight at his words, instinctively preening under his heated appraisal. "As are you, my alpha."

Kaden closed the distance between them in two prowling strides, his movements lithe and predatory. "This new world we've awakened to," he murmured, trailing his fingertips along the elegant curve of her jaw. "It's ours for the taking."

Elena leaned into his touch, savoring...