Psy & Changelings 10 - Kiss of Snow

significance of your last. Was it a family name?”
    He shook his head. “My mother had decided on a name if she ever had a boy, long before she met my father, regardless of the fact that Hawke wasn’t any kind of a name for a wolf.” He settled over her, a heavy male blanket. “When they mated, she decided to take her mate’s surname, which was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in the pack, but she refused to change her mind about her son’s name.”
    Sienna heard the echo of deepest love in that statement. “Your father accepted it.”
    “He adored her.” A simple answer. “Plus he figured any son of his would soon handle anyone who hassled him over his name—he was right.” The arrogance was pure male wolf.
    Charmed, she kissed a line up his neck. “In your mother’s defense,” she said, unable to stop petting him, “it’s a gorgeous, unique name.”
    “Just not meant for a wolf.” He bent into her caresses. “Honestly? I like that they both gave me a name.”
    She did, too. “What about me?” she asked. “Do I take your last name since we’re mated?”
    “Do you want to?” A tilt of his head, the wolf watchful but not demanding.
    She considered the question with care, thinking of who she’d been, who she was now. “Yes,” she said at last, “but I’d like to keep mine, too.” As with Hawke, the past was gone, but it had left an indelible mark, could not be forgotten. “It’s a part of me.”
    Lips against her own, a wolf’s kiss. “That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.”

Berkley Titles by Nalini Singh
     
    Psy-Changeling Series
    SLAVE TO SENSATION
VISIONS OF HEAT
CARESSED BY ICE
MINE TO POSSESS
HOSTAGE TO PLEASURE
BRANDED BY FIRE
BLAZE OF MEMORY
BONDS OF JUSTICE
PLAY OF PASSION
KISS OF SNOW
     
    Guild Hunter Series
    ANGELS’ BLOOD
ANGELS’PAWN
(A Berkley Sensation eSpecial)
ARCHANGEL’S KISS
ARCHANGEL’S CONSORT
     
    Anthologies
    AN ENCHANTED SEASON
(with Maggie Shayne, Erin McCarthy, and Jean Johnson)
THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS CAT
(with Lora Leigh, Erin McCarthy, and Linda Winstead Jones)
MUST LOVE HELLHOUNDS
(with Charlaine Harris, Ilona Andrews, and Meljean Brook)
    BURNING UP
(with Angela Knight, Virginia Kantra, and Meljean Brook)