My heart plummeted to my stomach, and I felt lightheaded. I stood frozen to the spot as the the door flung open,“Selene, I…” His voice trailed off and he froze, his eyes locking onto the horrible scene behind me. I watched the color drain from his face, and his eyes darted from my parents’s corpses to my blood stained body. Then his jaw tightened, his eyes narrowed into icy slits. “What is this, Selene?”Rafe, I—” My voice broke, and I stumbled forward, trying to reach for him. I wanted him to understand that I didn’t know what happened. I wanted him to believe me, to somehow look in my eyes, and tell me I was safe, and everything would be alright. “I don’t know what happened. I just woke up and—”But the man staring me down was no longer the Rafe I'd been attracted to. This was Rfae, the Alpha. I knew I was doomed. Ofcourse, his duties to both packs was loyalty as was expected of a wolf, and if he waved this away, it’d be treacherous.“Don’t.” he snapped, jerking away from my touch.
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