Ocean's Breath Plateau Buried alive inside my dreams, but it was all a fake-out

She stepped from the water and found Chakliux. And she could not ignore the way his smile set her heart racing, nor the way his touch lit all her veins with a lightning-bolt heat. Marina recalled the night they'd spent together and blushed.

You've been busy, She murmured playfully, taking in the scents threaded through his fur. Foremost among them, a wolf unknown to her; feminine, young, and though her heart fell, she leaned into his touch. But no more words came to her. She could only wonder if it had been presumptuous of her even to think she might claim a place as third in his heart. Fourth, maybe, or fifth — or not at all.

It was not what she'd imagined for herself.