Aiden's POV
My heart actually burns like molten metal in my chest, I am so filled with a fiercer pride in Haylee as she takes control of the ritual. This is the woman I fell in love with — not the shattered, broken mate who left me five years ago, but the true Alpha who will emerge from the Legion and whose powers I can already feel waking up to protect what is most important to her.” She strides around like I haven’t seen in years, every gesture has purpose and power.
The metamorphosis is stunning. Where she once catered to others, now she commands as if by natural right. What she once wavered over, she now has full confidence in going for it. This is who she was meant to be all along, and I hate myself for ever making her think she had to be anything less than that.
But when I see Xavier step out of that nightmare rift in his warped state, I almost lose it completely. Every Alpha impulse in me is telling me to bust up the circle, shift into my wolf and rip the bastard to shreds with
