Chapter 18

I took a deep breath and moved closer to Chase, he had finally stopped laughing, and a silence settled between us, and when I sat down beside him on the bed I suddenly remembered when he'd warmed me at the inn, how kind it had been, and when I looked into his eyes I regretted that those eyes belonged to Cristhofer's murderer, because they were eyes so deeply beautiful, like a night sea, full of secrets.

" I know you are scared and shocked." he started, but I interrupted him with a finger on his lips, when I did this I realized how intimate it was, and quickly took the finger away, when he had done it to mine it seemed too natural, but I had never been silenced like that, much less silenced someone like that.

" Why did that werewolf attack us?" I asked.

" Either you are born an Alpha, or you become one, the second option is to kill an Alpha, so wherever I go I am a target."

I looked into his dark eyes and wondered which of the two options had made him an alpha, birth or killing, bu