CLARA'S POV
I needed to be aware of other things so as not to be caught unaware like that again.
"Probably," he replied.
"About the biting …" my voice trailed off when he shifted to face me.
"You bit me too, darling." His smile was pure sin in a face carved by gods.
Desire loped through my lower stomach as he turned back to the road. How could he affect me with just a look? I turned my troubled gaze to the blustering storm outside as I tried to control my libido. Control had been an illusion since I met this man.
My mind tried to organize and make sense of the changes in my life. I had been married, mated, and marked. I knew deep in my heart the safest path for Jane was with Taki and his family, but I was a woman who had always lived in my head, and Taki wanted that same heart. Had I given it to him last night? At one point, I would've given him anything, even my soul. Maybe I had.