I continue to follow her scent until it leads me to her room.I stand, exhaling shakily, staring at the door as if it could give me answers. As if it could help me fix this. Knox presses closer to the surface, restless and desperate as I am, to ease the pain I caused her today.I close my eyes brief
Knox’s growl rips through my mind the second I turn away from Lola.“Go after her.” I don’t even get the chance to think before his voice becomes a snarl. “Now, Alec. Find our mate before it’s too late.”He doesn’t need to tell me twice. The urge to find her is already burning inside me like a fucki
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