Chapter 7

I made it back to the compound still somewhat in disbelief of what had just happened. I could not remember the last time I failed or left a mission incomplete, especially one of this magnitude. Father would be very displeased, but that was the least of my worries. The reason for which I failed my mission was my conundrum.

That wolf… he somehow got under my skin and got the best of me mentally and I found myself unable to kill him. It angered me to my core that he had some kind of affect over me. And in the end, I gave him my name. Why? What could I have possibly been thinking?

I was not a wolf. Why would his mate bond have any sway over me? No. It could not be. There must have been something else. I was probably just weak and irritable. I had not consumed any blood before I left for the assignment. My energy must have been low, and I was not thinking straight. Yes. That made sense. That was most likely the issue. That had to be it, because the alternative was something I could not bri