Unleashing the Beast

***Marcella***

I’d always known Kaelen was holding back with me. He’d give me glimpses, flickers of the man beneath the surface, but never too much. Like he feared, I'd run if he truly unleashed that wild, unbridled part of himself.

But running was the last thing on my mind.

I didn’t want the polished version of him. I wanted the storm he tried to cage. I wanted the darkness, the hunger, the untam