Layla’s POVI didn’t know what to expect. Both of my previous visits to Hector’s office had ended with surprises that I was still dealing with, and now that I was heading to him with every intention of making a request I was surprised to find that I felt oddly calm.Maybe it was the aftermath of my
My head snapped up hard enough that it was a small miracle I didn’t have whiplash, and I found Hector staring at me with a deadpan expression. His arms were folded, and he stood leaning against the doorframe with an eyebrow raised at me.“You might even have a drink while you’re at it,” he continued
Layla’s POVI had seen Hector be a lot of things—amused, annoyed, and even protective—but as I listened to his booming, full-bodied laugh, I came to the realisation that for as long as I knew the man he would always be able to surprise me.In front of my eyes, my Alpha transformed, becoming younger
Layla’s POVMy breath hitched slightly as soon as Hector gave the order, and his words reverberated through my body. I stared at him in open-mouthed shock. He had just told me to kneel, which was the greatest show of submission among our species.A simple bow was the norm, but even then I wouldn’t h
I held my breath in the long moment that followed as he stared at me with a blank expression, but then a look of resignation came over his features and I felt my heart dip with disappointment.He got up wordlessly, and I felt the hot sting of failure and embarrassment burn through me almost instantl
Layla’s POVHector was a dictator when it came to my personal training. He’d made that pretty clear in the first hour after he accepted me, with the whole push-up fiasco, but things only escalated from that point onwards.For starters, he kept me on a strict sleeping and exercise regimen. Every mor
‘Little Wolf,’ Hector said suddenly. ‘Are you there?’The sound of his voice echoing in my head down the mindlink startled me, because it was hard to ignore the sensation it always left me with, that he was standing right next to me even when he wasn’t.‘Yes Alpha,’ I said.He didn’t answer immediat
She had pretty much told me so herself, citing the fact that she heard Marcia Rockmountain (the same elderly matriarch of the Rockmountain clan who didn’t hesitate to condemn me to death) tell Reno to watch out for me, as I was ‘just like my whore mother.’The fact that she would even say that told