Alec.I freeze.For a moment, it’s like the world forgets how to move. The only thing I can hear is my own heartbeat. Loud, heavy, and uneven, pounding against my ribs like it’s trying to escape.Lola.She stands there, looking perfectly fine. Her dark hair falls the same way it used to, and her eye
Excitement surges through me anyway, and I can’t help squealing, “Oh my God, Alec! Do you know what this means? I never even got the chance to go to a ball before and now I actually can.”The annual ball is usually attended by werewolves who have shifted. When he was my alpha, I never got to attend
The silence around us is thick after Micah’s call. Alec’s hand is still tight around his phone, knuckles white, but his eyes are distant, flicking between me and the road as though part of him is here, with me, and the other part has already left.He looks torn, caught between duty and me. I know th
I swallow hard, my throat thick with emotions I don’t know how to process. My eyes sting, and I blink rapidly, refusing to let tears fall.“You make it sound so easy,” I whisper.“It’s not easy,” he says honestly. “But having you by my side will make it all worth it.”For a long moment, silence stre
“Stop staring,” I murmur, tugging at the hem of my dress.“Not a chance,” he says, his voice low and honest, like he doesn’t even realize the words left his mouth.Heavens, why does that make my heart flutter? It’s not like I haven’t met men who stared at me over the years, but none of them made me
Aspen slips right back into her game as if nothing ever happened. She’s so absorbed, you’d never guess that just a few minutes ago she was asking me for rainbow doors and butterflies.Sometimes I wonder, do we all secretly wish our lives were as simple as that of children? Stress-free, carefree, the