#CHAPTER 102: Until We Meet Again

MAEVE POV He’s here. He’s finally here… It had only been perhaps four hours since we’d last seen each other, and it felt like coming home after being days apart. Xaden was with me again, and everyone else around me ceased to matter in the split second our eyes met. His dark hair looked ever so slightly windswept from the hunt, his green eyes bright and wild with adrenaline. The faintest whiff of blood brushed past my nose, clinging loosely to his now-dressed figure, but it had all but evaporated with the shedding of his wolfish form. But none of that mattered. He was here, and that nervous energy I’d had instantly began to melt away. With only Burke standing between us, Xaden was close enough that I could touch him if I so wanted to… which, oh, words could not even begin to describe how I wanted just to hold him and feel his strong, secure arms wrap around me… but I did not. Not with so many wandering, eager eyes in the bustling palace courtyard. I he