Larksong Grotto Living in a glass house

vuk allowed reek to kiss her, to touch her; she too basked in their nearness, though she could not shake the hurt that would rise upon terich's face when she told him. and there was no choice here; she could not stay with reek, not with the knowledge that she loved the demonte man who reared her son still hot within her breast. the sensation of reek's touch was a hungering veil upon her and presently she slid her muzzle beneath his own and curled herself into his embrace.

there were no words she could speak for now, nothing she wished to say, for vuk was terrified that she would shatter their delicate dome of desire and deepening affection with the admission that she could not, and would not, leave terich.