The same word I’d heard in Torma, even when I hadn’t known where it had come from. Hearing it again now, the first word he’d spoken to me, had my lips trembling.

“Shadow, do you remember me?”

I tried to touch his face, but he held me immobile, his grip unyielding, no matter how much I attempted to break free. He growled and said nothing more, but I felt his free hand running along my skin as he stripped away the final tangles of my underwear. At this point, my body was fully onboard with this because Shadow was back in his humanoid form, and I was one horny, horny shifter, who’d been separated from the only male to ever touch my body.

I arched against him, my brain near going offline at the feel of being with Shadow again. If only there wasn’t a small part of me frustrated because he still didn’t know me. Not really. All of this was instinct, and while I loved that part, I needed the rest. I was a greedy bitch when it came to my beast.

“Shadow. You have to try to remember me. I miss you—”

I was cut off as his hand slipped between my thighs and found the moisture pooling there. Arching into him again, I groaned as he stoked me, his power following each touch, zapping across the sensitive skin. This was effective in shutting down the last part of me that wanted to fight until he remembered.

Maybe I could just have a little sex first. That wasn’t too much to ask, right?

“Mine,” he murmured, pressing his lips to my throat, his tongue stroking my skin before he dragged it along to my shoulders, kissing and biting me, hard enough that I was near arching half off the ground. Motherfucker.

“Darkor!”

I never used that name except when I wanted to make a point. What that “point” was changed with the circumstances, but this time, I needed to jolt him from his current task of very successfully seducing me into forgetting the shit that had happened between us.

His hand slowed but didn’t leave my pussy, fingers still sliding their way through my folds and into my aching center. I was drenched, my pleasure dripping down his hand, and I really couldn’t focus on that right now.