Chapter 95

**Sloane**

The world settled around me in a haze of heat and straw, my body still humming from every place he’d touched, every place he’d claimed. My breath came ragged, chest heaving, skin slick against his. Ronan’s weight pressed me against the rail, grounding me, steadying me in a way nothing else ever could. For a long moment, neither of us spoke. Just the sound of our breathing, the faint sh