I woke up to the feeling of arms around me, holding onto me tightly. I groaned, slowly peeling my eyes open as I turned my eyes to the body beside me.

Raven. Her scent engulfed me like a chain. Calming, yet poisonous.

Why did the Moon Goddess have to do this to me? Why? Why give me a mate I was programmed to hate?

It could have been any other woman and I would have loved her with all my heart, treat her like a goddess, but it had to be her.

I slowly peeled her arms around me not wanting to wake her because I don't even know what...