LOGINElowen Gray has spent her entire life at the bottom of Blackthorn Pack — sleeping in a storage room, eating on permission, surviving on the hope that the man she loved in secret was going to save her. When Dorian Cross, the future Alpha, rejects her publicly at the mating ceremony and she discovers the same night that she is pregnant, Elowen makes the only decision she has ever made entirely for herself. She runs. Fate does not take her somewhere safe. It takes her straight into the territory of Kael Dravon, the most feared Alpha in the region, a man built from cold intelligence and controlled violence who marks her on the spot and tells her she belongs to him now. She has no pack, no protection, and two lives growing inside her. Elowen must navigate a pack she doesn’t understand, a man she cannot read, an enemy from her past who is coming for what she carries, and the slow and devastating discovery that the blood running through her veins is not what she was told it was.
View MoreELOWEN~•~The room they gave me had a window.That was the first thing I noticed when the female wolf assigned to show me around pushed the door open and stepped aside to let me through. A window with actual curtains, heavy dark fabric that pooled slightly at the floor, and through the glass a view of the pack grounds. I stood in the doorway and looked at it for longer than I should have before I remembered myself and walked in.The room was not large but it had a proper bed with a mattress that did not feel like sleeping on compressed disappointment. There was also a dresser with a mirror above it that was not cracked, as well as a small table with two chairs. The door on the left wall led to a bathroom, my own bathroom. I set my bag down on the floor next to the bed and looked around more.“Meals are in the main hall at seven, noon, and six,” the wolf said from the doorway. Her name was something I had already forgotten because I had been too busy cataloguing the layout of the co
KAEL~•~She was pregnant.I knew it the moment she walked through those doors. You didn’t spend years leading a pack without developing my kind of awareness that picked up on things instantly. She had hidden it well. A woman who could stand in front of me terrified, exhausted, and still thinking clearly enough to manage what she revealed and what she didn’t, that was not nothing.Caden was at my door within twenty minutes of her being escorted to her room. I heard him knock twice before he came in, which was more courtesy than he usually bothered with, which meant he had something to say that he wanted me to be in a receptive mood for before he said it.“Sit down,” I said, before he could open his mouth.He sat. Caden was my Beta and had been for six years, which meant he knew better than most when I was in a mood to be questioned and when I wasn’t. He looked at me across the desk with that careful expression he wore when he was trying to assess which version of me he was dealing w
ELOWEN~•~“Move it!”That was all I had been hearing since they pulled me out of that room. The one directly behind me said it every time my feet slowed down, which was often, because I was exhausted and the corridors of this pack house seemed to go on forever.I kept moving.The pack house was nothing like what I had grown up in. Everything about it was larger. The walls were dark stone, the floors smooth and cold under my feet, the lighting dim enough that the far ends of every corridor disappeared into shadow.We stopped at the end of a corridor that opened into a wide landing, and I saw the doors. Two of them, floor to ceiling, dark wood with iron fittings that looked like they had been there for a very long time.Two of the guards stepped forward and took a door each, pulling them open in unison, then the one behind me put a hand on my shoulder and walked me forward.I stepped across the threshold and the atmosphere changed immediately.It felt sharp, and every instinct I had,
ELOWEN~•~I didn’t reach for the rope again.Some deep part of me decided it wasn’t going to end like this, not on the floor of a storage room in the dark, not because of Dorian Cross and a pack that had never once treated me like I was worth keeping.I stayed on the floor for a long time with my hand pressed flat against my stomach and the rope still sitting on the shelf beside me, close enough to reach but suddenly very far away.I tried telling myself I wasn’t sure because the nausea could be anything. It could be the fact that I hadn’t eaten properly in two days. It could be the crying, it could be stress, which I had enough of to last several lifetimes. I went through every other explanation I could find, but none of it made sense.By the time the last sounds of the ceremony had faded from the other end of the pack house and the corridors had gone properly quiet, I had run out of things to test.I was pregnant with Dorian’s child and there was no way I was staying in this pack.
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