FIFTY-FOUR

CHARLOTTE POV

I nod and force myself to relax as I look out the windows. After a little while, he squeezes my hand. "We have just entered my pack's territory."

We go a bit further on and he squeezes my hand again as we go past a five-story house, or should I say mansion, "This is the official packhouse."

I sit up and forward a little more. "Isn't that where we are going?"

"No! I have an even better place to show you... A more private place."

He kept going and going, even after the road all but disappeared until he pulled up in front of this beautiful little cottage. He pulls the car to a stop, gets out, comes round to my side and opens the door. He holds out his hand. I hesitantly place my hand in his, and he helps me out of the car and leads me to the front door.

"This place used to be my mother's. She would come here with Tina and me as a baby. My father used to call it her escape hut, a way for her to escape all the pressures of being the luna and just be a mother and mate. One of