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Thirty-One: Oliver
Oliver's P.O.V.
The trip back to the Blue Moon pack only took an hour, but it was an hour of feeling Lana's fear and anxiety through our bond. I couldn't get the image of her looking up at me as she started to tell me she wouldn't come with me out of my head. It was playing on repeat like a bad song.
There had to be something I was doing wrong to keep pushing away the women in my life. My first mate wanted to get away from our bond so bad that she was willing to risk killing me just to mark another. My mother went insane and…
I shook the thought from my head. Facing that elephant was not something I was ready for yet.
Now my second chance mate, my true mate, my beautiful Lana, wasn't sure about us. The Goddess was probably kicking back with popcorn by now as she watched my humiliation.
But there was nothing that would make me give up. We had come too far. I would continue to be there and fight for Lana. I just hoped she star
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The Wolf's Claim Thirty-Four: Oliver
Oliver's P.O.V. I felt the hair on the back of my neck rise like a poltergeist was near as soon as I stepped out of the pack house. The meeting with Alpha Jones was quick, but her insistence that I joined some of her pack members for lunch made my stay much longer than I had intended. I knew it was a bad idea, but I couldn't say no and run out of there without it coming off as disrespectful. Not when she had just opened her home to Lana, Maddie, and me. But I knew based on the looks I had received, that word would get out to Nyla that I was here as soon as everyone dispersed… if they hadn't already used their pack link to tell her. That was one thing that I did not miss about pack life. Most packs were still a united force and took care of one another, but they sure loved to gossip. Everyone wanted to know what was going on with their brothers and sisters at all times. It was infuriating but also understandable. If one of my pack-mates were going through a hard time and weren't abl
The Wolf's Claim Thirty-Five: Lana
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