LOGINThe afternoon sun beat down on the gravel driveway, the heat baking against my cold skin. I walked out the front entrance of the main pack house, the doors closing behind me.Unlike last night, the entire grounds were filled with activity and it looked like they were making preparations for an event.I walked down the stone steps, my boots crunching on the gravel as I passed various shirtless men. As I neared them, a few stopped what they were doing and bowed their heads toward me. A few others simply stared with hard, tight expressions, refusing to acknowledge my presence entirely.I ignored all of them, kept my eyes fixed ahead, my face a mask of complete indifference. None was worth a second of my time. I didn't care about their submission, and I cared even less about their hostility.I needed to get away from William and his sudden attentiveness towards me. I veered off the ma
The next time my eyelids forced themselves open, the heavy thumping of a heartbeat vibrated against my cheek. I blinked several times, clearing the thick blur from my vision until it came into focus.I was in William’s arms.My body rested on his broad chest, my face pressed into the crook of his neck. The last memory buried in my brain was that of Allaston. I think I passed out long before William even got to me. I tried to twist my neck to look around, when suddenly, the ground vanished beneath us. William launched off the dirt, his powerful legs propelling us straight into the air. He hit the branch of a massive tree, stabilized his weight for a second, and leaped again. He began to hop from tree to tree, clearing the distances with every bound while holding me so tightly against his chest.My throat felt dry, but I forced my mouth open, drawing in a deep breath of cold air. After a few failed, silent attempts, I finally managed to whisper his name. "William."He stopped abruptly
I woke up with a heavy, dragging sensation throughout my limbs, realizing immediately that my wrists and ankles had been chained to the floor.A dull ache throbbed behind my eyes, and when I tried to push my senses outward, I hit a wall; the room was specifically equipped with technology designed to completely dampen my abilities. My eyes locked onto Allaston, who was standing directly on the opposite side of a thick glass wall that separated my cell from the rest of the room. A wide, permanent smile was plastered across his face. His unmoving expression thoroughly unsettled me. Does he ever stop smiling? I thought to myself, keeping my face blank to hide my growing unease.Allaston stepped closer to the transparent barrier, and spoke through an intercom system, his voice clear and smug. "My noble prize," he also purred."The perfect weapon for me to use against William."I frowned deeply at him, did he really think William would give up his position for me? Thqis man couldn't be as d
I forced myself to hold William's stare. Tilting my chin upward, and directing my full focus into our shared link. I thought of all the ways I could have killed him. I visualized every single detailed step, running through the thought of tearing through his arteries and draining him.William’s small smile vanished instantly. His fingers shot out, wrapping tightly around my neck as he yanked my body upward until my toes barely brushed the floor, pulling my face inches from his.His dark green irises flared into a bright gold, still I held my ground, keeping my eyes locked on him as I replayed one particular scene over and over in my mind: a clear, vivid fantasy of decapitating him in the most shameful, public manner possible.The grip around my throat grew tighter, threatening to cut off my breathing entirely. But just before either of us could say a word or push each other further, a loud, piercing alarm shattered the quiet night air.Both our heads snapped in the direction of the s
I woke with a gasp, my chest heaving and cold sweat running down my back. I blinked a few times as my vision slowly came into focus, revealing the high ceilings and familiar layout of William’s master bedroom at his pack house. I was back in his bed.Instinctively, I lifted my right hand to my mouth, running the pads of my fingers over the sharp points of my fangs. A long, shaky breath escaped my lips when I found them still fully intact.Unlike the final moments I remembered of Rowena’s cabin, the agonizing, starvation pain no longer consumed my body. I was still hungry, but the intense burning in my stomach had diminished into a dull, manageable ache deep within my bones.The alarm clock on the nightstand read 3:40 AM, and William was sleeping shirtless beside me.My eyebrows drew together in a frown as I stared at his relaxed features. "What the fuck did you do?" I whispered to m
The silence in the room became so loud that I could practically track the frantic calculations running through William’s mind. His jaw locked with such immense pressure that I genuinely wondered how his teeth had not shattered from the sheer force of his bite."That…is not a fair trade," William said, his voice flat and dangerously quiet.Rowena did not blink. "Nothing in life is fair, William, you know this. A bond for a bond. You must give up your other half if you wish to be entirely free of hers." She leaned forward, resting her palms on the low table. "I must warn you, this separation has an incredibly low success rate. And I have personally watched powerful men go entirely mad from losing their wolf."William’s breathing remained shallow. "Is there nothing else that can be done? Because my wolf is entirely out of the question."Rowena remained silent in thought for a very lon
"I didn't know you knew my son," Dario said, breaking the silence as his eyes shifted from Julian back to me."I don't," I replied, keeping my voice even despite the pounding in my head. "We just got acquainted."He didn't believe it, I could tell by the look in his eyes.But before Dario could say
I was starving. It's been three days since I last had a meal and my body was beginning to feel the physical drain of the deprivation.And I absolutely refused to ask William for assistance. So, the reasonable thing I did was to rush into work this morning, even before William, so I could feed off t
"Tanya," William warned, stopping a few feet before her. His sudden halt prompted me and Kaelen to stop right behind him.This woman, Tanya, did not look at William. Her brown eyes remained locked on me and I narrowed my eyes at her. I was not in the mood for whatever she was trying to do."So it w
I sat on the left side of the car, my head pressed against the tinted window as I watched the city streets pass by.On the right side, William’s focus was entirely on his phone, working, while his other hand lay on my lap.I looked back out the window, tracking our progress. The driver bypassed the







