These were her peers, the packmates she’d be working most closely with over the coming months and years, and though they were relative strangers yet, she liked their energy as a group. Taking a deep breath, she narrowed her attention to the gentle warmth inside of her, and to the people responsible for her emotional equilibrium. No, she said silently when her mind tried to claw her back to a carnal madness that had come perilously close to stripping her of her self-respect. Her hand tightened on the coffee cup, her skin tingling from the heat. Adria bit back a smile, the contentment inside her nothing she’d expected to feel after that brutal encounter with Riaz. She glanced at the other woman in silent question. And since Inés had specifically invited him … Hmm. Now that he’d pointed it out, Adria realized Sam was the only soldier of lower rank here. “Fine, I’m staying until someone kicks me out.” “I bet.”ĭimple flashing, Sam leaned his back against the log, one arm hooked companionably over Adria’s knee. “Like dance naked around the fire?” Inés raised an eyebrow.

“I thought you might have a secret ritual you were about to do or something.” “Would it worry you if you were?” A dry response.

“Inés, am I crashing a party for the senior soldiers?” Inés had just opened her mouth to reply when Sam, who’d gone to grab a sandwich, reappeared at Adria’s side without food, a concerned look on his face. Drawn into a cataclysmic Psy war that may alter the fate of the world itself, they must make a decision that might just break them both.“That was Eli,” Inés said, stretching out her legs as they sat side by side on a fallen log. Too late, they realize that they have more to lose than they ever imagined. Their coming together is an inferno…and a melding of two wounded souls who promise each other no commitment, no ties, no bonds. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another. Discover the exhilarating risks of passion in the breathtaking new Psy-Changeling novel by Nalini Singh, the New York Times bestselling “alpha author of paranormal romance” ( Booklist)… Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past-one as unpredictable in love as it was in war.

Tangle of need by nalini singh