Because You're Mine

Talia POV

I froze. His eyes were fixed on me while I shifted back.

Heat flooded my face the second Lucius’s eyes moved from me to Rolf and back again.

I was still barefoot, hair wind-tangled from the run, the faint scent of forest and Rolf’s laughter clinging to my skin. Lucius stood in the doorway looking like he had clawed his way out of the fever by sheer stubbornness—too pale, too thin, one ha