Karak’duun, he wanted Avery. Wanted her…as his lifemate. Though he wasn’t even certain of what that truly meant, he knew down in the deepest parts of himself that Avery was meant to be his mate—and that he’d settle for nothing less. He would have her. All of her. Yet his desire for her couldn’t change the fact that he’d never been with a female. Everything he wanted to do with her, to her, was the product of an imagination he’d fed too much.