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
Hector’s POVI would’ve been surprised if things ended so quickly, what with Xavier’s reputation and how he had managed to acquire it so young. Luckily, it didn’t.There was no visible shift in the other man’s features as he took a few steps back, light on his feet to put some distance between us.I
But this was the present, and a chasm of fighting experience stood between us that his natural talent just couldn’t cross.‘END HIM!’ Hal cried out inside me, and I stepped into one of the attacks, wincing as Xavier’s claws raked around across my chest, tearing my gear.The young man moved to accomm