010 | TELL ME EVERYTHING

Enzo’s POV

Scarlett trembled in my arms, staring fixedly at my chest. A single finger reached for the whorl of ink that crested my collarbone, and she traced it, her touch feather-light, as she began to speak.

“I realised I couldn’t shift into my wolf form when I was fifteen.” She inhaled shakily, even though this was a part of her story I’d already heard. Dread knotted in my belly. “My parents told me to hide it for as long as I could, but Alpha Ryker has us join training the day after our fifteenth birthdays. So he knew, as did everyone else, as soon as I was forced out onto the training field and just stood there.”

Her breathing hitched, and she paused, her fingertip stilling at the hollow of my throat. It felt an oddly intimate, and memories of her – perked breasts, heavy breathing, flushed lips – shot straight down my core. I ran a hand down her side, settling it in the curve of her waist.

“He gave me a week,” she continued, her tone going flat. “A week to shift, and prove that