Chapter 142 - Chapter 142; Takoda

Kade let his head ease back against the headboard, his eyes settling to half-open, not fully closed, not fully resting, but no longer rigidly front-facing either. Not the rest he needed, not with what was moving through the estate's outer corridors. But her nearness took the sharpest edge off the weight of it. Made the accumulated pressure of the territory, the betrayal, the hunt, feel like something that could be met and dealt with rather than something crouching beyond the horizon of his endurance. It bent the Alpha in him, just enough, and in precisely the right direction, toward the man who had needed to stop, even briefly, for a few minutes that were only his.