The Weight of a Touch

The heavy wooden door clicked into its frame, slicing off the chill of the forest and trapping them both in the suffocating intimacy of the cabin.

*Are we just going to gloss over the fact that you called me annoying out there?* Aethra’s voice echoed in her head, thick with dry amusement. *Especially after that little lecture about not letting him catch our scent?*

Heat flooded the back of Valer