The King's Surrender

ROWAN’S POV

Something aches, sweet and enormous, behind my ribs.

I push up onto my elbow to look at him. He’s wrecked and gorgeous in the low light, his hair a disaster from my hands, faint marks I put on his throat, his eyes soft and open in a way the Lycan King never lets them be for anyone.

And I understand, all at once, what I actually gave him tonight — not a punishment, not even really a gam