THE CEO (1)

I spent most of my drive to work thinking about Killian. His childhood explained a lot about him now as an adult. As Christine had pointed out, not having a stable home or a real pack while growing up, made him fiercely protective and loyal to what he had now.

And his consideration of me as a new member of the pack made sense too. How many times had he experienced that awkwardness, moving somewhere new and trying to fit in? Then there was his speech about ‘moments of great disappointment’.

I kept coming back to that, but it could have any number of meanings. At one time, I thought it might have referred to Josephine, or it could be about his brother turning on him, but now I wondered if it was his mother leaving him behind, or possibly even his whole childhood.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Killian was a very complex person, with one foot in the past, dealing with the ancient traditions and animal instincts of a male werewolf and pack Alpha and the other in