If Rhiannon really wanted to know what was really going on between her and Maddox, why she felt so strangely safe at his side, or why she had sensed that potential in him to become a Royal Alpha, then yes, perhaps that was the most dangerous question of all.

The problem was that her head and heart had deceived her before. She had let all her feelings take the lead, and they had failed her...maybe it was time to let instinct guide her.

She caught the first ring between her index finger and her thumb and popped the clasp open, feeling Maddox’s grunt of satisfaction as she pulled it out of his ear. She had felt it as well when Raksha had forced out all the silver from her body, she just hadn’t had time to enjoy it as she should have, or at least not as he seemed to enjoy it.

She removed the second ring and could see the hair on Maddox’s skin stand on end as he closed her eyes. Silver no longer had an effect on her, but she knew that those four hoops piercing his cartilage were, by far, m