Tao shook his head. "Not cryptic. You were upset last night, bristling with anger, pain, the need to hurt or be hurt. If that was all you needed, a release, then that was all it needed to be."
He was fully aware of Riley's naked body. Too aware. He was just not about to push his own cravings with a new alliance still sitting on his desk. Tao licked at his bottom lip, "Be sure, little wolf, this is untested territory." It was the last chance he was going to be able to give him to back out.