You know the wonder on a child's face the first time they saw the galaxy. Yes, this was how Asher stared at her, as if she were his Milky Way. His world. His everything.
Call it instinct, but Violet knew the bond between them was close to snapping into place. The attraction was sizzling, and heavy in the air. Like the breath a diver held just before plunging into the deep, they were both suspended in that moment.
Violet wasn't naïve. Three of the matebonds had already formed in moments of extreme danger, and she knew this one would be no different. But she was ready for it. No one was taking Asher away from her, not after all the waiting, and the hard-won steps that had led them here.
"Is it disturbing that I get blue balls when you two eye-fuck like this?" someone said, snapping Violet back to the present.
It was Roman of course.
Violet took one look at him and her stomach took a dizzying flip.
