Chapter 7 : Saving Dylan

I stood frozen in disbelief as Lyra, my inner wolf, whined in excitement. "Mate," she insisted again.

Her voice was a whisper in my mind but it felt like a heart-wrenching thunder strike in my heart. Alpha Knox was my mate? How could this even be possible?

I shook my head and took a hesitant step back. I didn’t care why it was possible, I just didn’t want anything to do with it.

But when I moved back, Lyra became more erratic. She was jumping in excitement and urging me to run into his arms.

“Please Melissa, Go to him! He’s our mate!” she pleaded, her joy was immeasurably and I didn’t want to make her sad, but the very thought of being with Knox again made my skin crawl.

“No Lyra!” I refused. “I'd rather die than accept Knox as my mate after everything he'd done to me. He was the one who broke my heart, humiliated me for not having a wolf, stomped on my heart and didn’t give a damn, and worst of all, he kidnapped my children!” I yelled at Lyra.

Just the mere idea of being tied to him