Jane’s POV‘Is that…’ Ina trailed off.I gulped. ‘It is. How can Reg be here? Where did Colin go? What…’ I trailed off, too. As my boys would say: the woman was too stunned to speak.It couldn’t be Reg. It couldn’t be Hunter’s wolf, because he’d come out of Colin. Colin, my Colin, who’d just told me he loved me. Colin, my Colin, who’d followed me here to keep me safe. Colin, who sometimes sounded as cold as Hunter. Colin, whose eyes sometimes glinted blue. Colin, who hadn’t shifted once until now…Was this why? Had he been hiding Reg this whole time? It didn’t make any sense. My whole body felt numb as I watched them fight. I couldn’t even find a shred of passion to worry about Colin. If that was who he really was…‘Colin can’t be Hunter, Jane!’ cried Ina, backing up and shaking her head. ‘I would know. I would’ve smelled him. And,’ she sniffed the air, ‘I would smell Reg now, if that was him.’‘You said you couldn’t smell Colin at all,’ I reminded her, my voice turning pitchy in my
Jane’s POV‘Ina,’ I gasped, ‘are you seeing what I’m seeing?’‘I don’t know what I’m seeing, girl! It’s like hot double vision over here!’‘Then you’re seeing what I’m seeing.’ I wet my lips, which had suddenly gone very, very dry, and ran my tongue over my teeth. ‘Have you got any idea what’s going on?’‘Beats me! I just know I want to be in an Alpha Colin sandwich. This is the sort of thing most girls dream of, you know!’‘This doesn’t feel like a dream,’ I said. ‘This feels more like a nightmare.’Alpha Colin – my Alpha Colin, the original, the one I thought I knew – reared back and hissed, “What the fuck?”Keila laughed smugly as she swaggered down the last few steps. “I thought you might say that, Phoney McPhonerson. This is Alpha Colin of the Desert Assassin pack – the real one, not some dirty faker like you.”“Colin?” I stepped forwards, looking between the two identical men. “What’s going on?”Leif huffed and came to stand at my side, crossing his arms over his chest and scowl
Jane’s POVI couldn’t think. I couldn’t breathe. Panic engulfed me. “How?” I breathed. The sound was barely audible, but Colin – Hunter – heard me.“How what?” His brow furrowed, looking so cute, so Colin-like, that my heart stopped again. It shouldn’t be possible. This man couldn’t be the same one that I’d run away from, not once but twice.“How did you take his body?”“Jane, I didn’t. I am me. I am Alpha Colin.” I glared at him, letting my sadness give way to anger. “No, you aren’t. That’s why there are Shadows at Ed’s house, I guess? Because you sent them there.”“What are Shadows?” he said, looking desperately between me, the prisoners, and the other Colin. None of us were going to help him, though.Even if I wanted to believe him, I couldn’t. So many tiny things, a hundred little inconsistencies, suddenly had an explanation.“If you aren’t Hunter, then why is Reg your wolf?”He swallowed noisily. “Who is Reg?”“Stop lying!” I yelled. Keila and Leif sidled closer together. He
Alpha Colin’s POV(The real Alpha Colin)What the ding-dang-doodly hell had I walked into?No, seriously, what in dangnation was going on?My jaw dropped as Jane, sweet Omega Jane, who looked like she wouldn’t hurt a fly, shifted into a huge, silver-white wolf that was quite clearly an Alpha. The Omega girl had an Alpha wolf, the two rogue siblings clearly wanted each other and were tying themselves in knots to avoid that fact, and Alpha Hunter was beating the living daylights out of them both whenever they came anywhere near Jane. Who, by the way, clearly didn’t need his protection anyway, not with that Alpha wolf of hers.I scrubbed at my eyes. Was this a fever dream? Yeah, that had to be it. I was still in the hospital, hopped up on pain meds and dancing to the weirdest song I'd ever heard.Only I knew this was real. I'd never had a dream this grotty or grimy before. I was way too cheerful to be coming up with anything this deranged, even in the deepest darkest crevices of my mind.
Hunter’s POVI woke up slowly and angrily. My back was pressed against the cell bars, which I’d crunched out of shape, but not broken, with my fall. I was dazed but not badly hurt.I didn’t know who I wanted to kill first. I looked up and my gaze found Colin. He was shaking in his boots, staring back at me like I might bite his head off. And maybe I should, the traitor. But it wasn’t him I ached to kill. The real Alpha Colin was little more than a wet wipe. Leif was down and, from the looks of it, bleeding out. It wouldn’t take much to finish the job and maybe he deserved to die bloody and slow.It was Keila I hated most of all. Keila, who was on something that made her impossible to hurt, apparently. ‘I don’t see that as a bad thing, Hunter!’ said Reg, baring his teeth at her. ‘It means we can hurt her for longer. And I bet you want to, after all that embarrassing stuff she made you do!’‘If you ever tell anyone about that shit, Reg, I’ll kick your ass all the way back to the Moon
Hunter’s POVJane stepped forward and gripped the bars. I padded over to the chest in the corner and shifted out, reaching into it and dressing in someone’s button-up shirt and trousers before I turned back to face her. ‘I would tell you to be a gentleman and get Jane some clothes, too, but she scratched my perfect face,’ Reg huffed. ‘What will my fans say when they see it? What if it scars?’‘It won’t scar. You’re an Alpha wolf, dummy. It’s already healing.’I grabbed a handful of clothes out for her and marched over to Jane’s cell. Four pairs of eyes watched me go; the other prisoners were waiting for their sentence to come. They’d be waiting a while. I needed to know what they knew, but I needed to fix things with Jane first.Everything was crumbling around me. I had to start putting things back together – and fast. “Here.” I passed the clothes through the bars to Jane. She crossed her arms and ignored me.“You forced me in here,” she said coldly. “I don’t want anything from you.
Hunter‘s POVReg hadn’t stopped shaking his butt since I’d told him we were going home. Even with an unconscious Jane to contend with, Leif and Keila both still alive and kicking, and Alpha Colin now conscious and staring at me with his thumb in his fucking mouth, Reg seemed determined to be in the most irritatingly good mood he could be.‘Back! To! The! Storm! Pack!’ He punctuated every word with another ass shake. ‘Reg, focus!’ I snapped.‘Sorry, Hunter! I’m just so excited! Things can go back to how they used to be, only I’m waaaay richer now, and even more famous and popular than you are. Ian and I can hang out, and eat all the hot wings we like, and watch back old episodes of Alpha’s Toy, and my new episodes, and we can gossip about girls, and I can devote more time to helping Ian find his mate!’ He whined suddenly. ‘Hunter, I wish we could look for our mate. I don’t like Amy anymore. She’s mean.’‘Oh my god.’ I glared at him. ‘You wanted Jane. When you finally got Jane, you dec
Jane’s POVEverything was dark and foggy. My body felt heavy, too heavy to move, and my brain struggled to make sense of the world around me. My eyelids wouldn’t open and all I could feel was a rumbling, bouncing sensation beneath – or was it around? – me.Smooth, warm leather pressed against my bare arm. Something nestled closer to me, a slack face nudging against my bicep, and my heart ached. That something felt more like a someone, someone I knew better than myself and loved with more than just the force of my heart. It felt like Owen, who always slept with his mouth open and his head tilted back.I couldn’t remember where I was or what was going on, but I did know that it couldn’t be my sweet Owen. Another burst of heat scrambled around on my other side, and an aggravated little sigh that sounded so much like Ares made my heart twist. This was a cruel dream, but it was one I didn’t want to wake up from.I vaguely recognised S’s flat, emotionless voice. “–It didn’t work on the chil