‘Can you smell?’ I asked Lea cautiously.My heart raced in my chest as hope twisted around inside it, and when my wolf drew back at my question before giving a small cautious nod, her eyes widening like she had only just realised it, I didn’t feel relieved.Instead, I felt afraid. What sort of powe
Hector’s POVI was in the middle of a Zoom call with Michael McKenzie—the current Alpha of the Blue Moon Pack and Xavier’s father—discussing possible ways to further solidify the fragile alliance we were building between our Packs, when I felt it. Or rather, its lack.It was this absence that made
The thought of opening her up to danger like that had terrified me, but there was also a cautious optimism too, so the fact that she may have come to danger now seemed to me the cruellest joke that fate could play.I wanted to rage until my voice grew ragged from the unfairness of it all, but I didn
Hector’s POVAs we headed to the clinic it felt like I was holding onto the last threads of my patience with the entire situation. I could feel a crisis come on. Concern and jealousy both burned hotly inside me as I watched Xavier and Anya scramble towards the automatic sliding doors with my uncons
I cut him off before he could get the rest of his words out.“Do as he says. Leave, now.”Xavier turned to me, and there was a flash of defiance in his gaze as he worked his jaw to say something.I felt my pulse start to drum up a steady rhythm, and inside me Hal readied himself. A part of me hoped
I blinked, taken aback by the unexpected topic change.“Yes, Layla was challenged in combat and that was what led to this.”The doctor frowned. “You’re absolutely certain that she sustained serious injuries from the altercation?”I nodded, before answering guardedly. “Yes, I am. Is there a problem,
Hector’s POV“So, where does that leave the alliance between our Packs?” Michael McKenzie asked guardedly once I finished telling him of the day’s events.He was at least almost two decades older than I was and in good shape still, but even then, as I narrated the act of aggression of one of his Pac
The situation between the Sanguis and the Blue Moon Packs was already so heated, but if one good thing had come out of it, it was the fact that I had been given a valid reason to boot them out of my territory—with particular focus on Xavier.It was killing two birds with one stone really, and I watc