“I know it doesn’t mean anything coming from me,” I said with a calmness that surprised even me, “but I care about Xaden very much. He has saved me more times than I could ever begin to repay him for, even from my own family.”He remained silent. Almost eerily so. Still, I dared to keep going.“I kn
MAEVE POVA couple of days had passed since my little chat with the alpha king, and I was not sure what to make of it.Confrontation, I had expected from the get-go, along with heaps of intimidation, warnings, and threats—and I certainly received just that. What I hadn’t expected, however, was how e
I… never told Xaden about what happened with his father.It wouldn’t have done anyone any good if I told him about his father’s continued hostility toward me. I had no desire to further deepen the gaping rift that already existed between them, and in all honesty, it wasn’t his business.King Arlan’s
“Without question.”He could not seem to keep his hands off me, not that I particularly minded while we were tucked away in the privacy of our bedroom.“In fact,” he continued, his hands roaming higher and higher… hot, coarse fingers toying on the edge of my low neckline, making my breath hitch and
MAEVE POVThis was it.The evening of the Hunter’s Moon had finally arrived, bathing the entire courtyard with a warm amber glow, and with the revelries of the night in full swing, I was only half-convinced that this was, in fact, not a dream.Less than one hour had passed since the hunting expediti
Within seconds, the pack was surrounded by greedy and excited onlookers, all fawning over the wolves and their trophies.The royal family was, unsurprisingly, easy to point out among the group of alphas in their large hunting party—both in size and sheer power. But when I first laid eyes on Xaden’s
Her scowl, however, only tightened. “No. Everyone deserves to know you’re—”“Well, what do we have here?” A man’s voice—deep but silky smooth, like the most rich of butters—suddenly cut into the simmering tension between us. “Two lovely, miserable young ladies amidst what is meant to be a night of c
MAEVE POV“You have?” I blurted out before I could think better of it.“You have?” Isabelle all but screeched, equally as bewildered, but decidedly more appalled.It seemed neither of us quite knew how to take Alpha Kenneth’s sudden interest. In all the years I’d known of his association with my fat