CHAPTER 24

  Raleigh:

  I just had my first kiss.

  I couldn't believe it. It was like the world around me had stopped. Fireworks burst inside me, and for what seemed to be an eternity, I felt the peace and the heat that I had craved for the majority of my life. Everything was calm, and I even forgot for a few moments what had happened before our lips met each other.

  I didn't remember much from the tan wolf, or his attempt at kidnapping me. All I could think about was Lucien's dark black wolf pouncing right when he was going to...do something horrible, probably. I didn't see their fight, but knowing that Lucien had chased him into the woods had given me a sense of pride in him. He was my Alpha, my strong Alpha.