LOGINNina POVThe bathroom mirror was fogged from the cold water I’d splashed on my face, but it still showed me the truth I didn’t want to see: swollen lips, flushed cheeks, wild eyes, and the faint red marks on my neck where Enzo’s beard had scraped against my skin. I looked like a woman who had just been thoroughly kissed by her mate.I looked like a traitor.Sky was still purring in the back of my mind, smug and satisfied. That was hot. His hands, the way he pinned us, the growl when you gasped… I could feel how much he wanted us. Why are you hiding in here? Go back out there and finish what we started.“Because I can’t,” I whispered to my reflection. My voice cracked. “Because in less than an hour I have to sneak out to meet Dexter outside the pack and hand over the armory codes. Because my father is missing two fingers already and if I don’t show up, he’ll lose more. Because I just let myself fall into Enzo’s arms like I deserve to be there, when I know I didn't.”Sky huffed, curling
Lily POVThe first time that night a tiny flicker of fear gripped me, and my heart was beating so fast.He glanced over at me, “I’m sorry, Lily. I should have mentioned it earlier. I need to stop by my apartment for just a minute. There's a book I promised to lend you for your paper. The one on ancient myths? It’s on my shelf, and I completely forgot to give it to you and the chances of my coming into the school tomorrow are slim. I have an emergency. Traffic really is a nightmare, and I figured we could swing by on the way. I won’t keep you long. Promise.”His voice was so calm, so reassuring, that the flicker of worry vanished instantly, that was a valid reason to go to his house.Plus, he wasn’t some stranger, he was Professor Dexter Kane the man who stayed after class to answer my endless questions, who remembered I liked extra foam on my coffee, who looked at me like my thoughts were the most interesting thing he’d heard all day. There was nothing predatory in his tone. No press
Lily POVThe evening air had turned cooler than I expected“Traffic’s brutal tonight. It would take hours for your Uber to get here, and I can’t leave you out here waiting.”I couldn't stay here that jerk could come back before my Uber gets here, and what if he didn't come back alone?Professor Kane…. Dexter, as he’d insisted I call him outside of class stood a few feet away, hands in the pockets of his dark coat, the wire rimmed glasses catching the glow of a nearby lamp. He looked effortlessly put together as always like he didn't just threaten a man “I figured we could ride together,” he continued smoothly, I could drop you off at your dorm. Is that fine?”I hesitated for half a second. Getting into a professor’s car at night felt a little bit bold.The kind of thing good girls like me didn’t usually do. But Dexter had never once made me feel anything but safe. He was kind. Patient beyond reason with my endless questions about ancient myths, weird creatures, and hidden worlds. He
Lily POVMy heart was doing that stupid fluttery thing again, it happens to do that whenever I think of Prof. Kane, or see him, or even think of him in the slightest.Dexter… Professor Kane was everywhere I went, in the parking lot, in classes, even in the library, and I even saw him in my dreams. Today we bumped into each other in the library he was so nice and intelligent, he was like a walking encyclopedia, I followed him to the shelves I wanted to see the kind of books he read, what if he was secretly a dark romance lover? I just had to find out.This was the first and last time I wasn't some psychopath tailing a crush, I just wanted to read a book that happened to come from the same shelf. He was reading a book about werewolves, Circle of the WerewolvesI picked it, I had to read what he was reading, I settled into the chair behind him, and opened the book I found a note, it was a list of things he had to do, he used a sticky note.Get coffee Laundry Meet Stan and Mike at the
Dexter POVThe human world always tasted too clean.No blood in the air, no howls under the moon. Just coffee steam, exhaust fumes, and the endless chatter of prey who thought they were predators. And endless girls I pick up from strip clubs and send them as additional stock they were too easy to manipulate, it was too easy.I adjusted the wire rimmed glasses on my nose and leaned against the brick wall outside Eldridge University’s main gate, pretending to scroll through my phone like any other bored professor waiting for office hours.But my eyes never left her, Lily Harper.She was walking out of the journalism building, her braid swinging, backpack slung over one shoulder, laughing at something her roommate Chloe had just said.Her laugh was light, she looked like she didn't have a worry in the world, that's why she was perfect for my plan. She didn't have any reason to have her guard up, she was full of genuine thrill, which made my claws itch inside their glamoured skin. I wa
Enzo POVI was drowning in her.Nina’s body pressed against mine felt like pure sin wrapped in silk soft curves molding perfectly to every hard line of my frame, her heartbeat thundering against my chest in a frantic rhythm with my own. Her scent spiced cranberry and cinnamon flooded my lungs, sweet and sharp and addictive, making Rex claw at the inside of my skull, demanding more. Her taste lingered on my tongue from that bourbon kissed kiss warm honey, dark smoke, and something uniquely her that drove every rational thought straight out of my head.Those little gasps she made when I pinned her wrists above her head? The soft, needy moans that slipped past her swollen lips when I ground against her? They were gasoline on the fire already raging through my veins. I wanted to throw her over my shoulder, carry her to the leather couch in the corner, strip that robe away inch by torturous inch, and map every secret place on her body with my mouth until she was trembling, begging, comple
EnzoThe pack house felt too quiet and too empty, it felt like the walls themselves were holding their breath. Everyone was avoiding me like I was a ticking time bomb. I sat in the war room, elbows braced on the heavy table, staring at the map of our territory until the lines became blurred. Red p
NinaMy mate was a fuck boy, and he wasn't hiding it. Was this a thing he does normally, entangling himself with the wolves in the pack, he was not different from Alpha Dexter.The hospital room felt smaller the longer Alpha Enzo stayed in it. The antiseptic smell mixed with his scent until I could
Enzo Everything about her was a quiet assault on my control.The way her dark lashes fanned against pale cheeks still bruised from battle. The faint rise and fall of her chest beneath the thin hospital gown, the stubborn set of her jaw even in sleep, like she was already fighting me in her dreams.
NinaPresent time day The battlefield still lived behind my eyelids every second I closed them, the smell of blood of dirt couldn't go away, the sound of claws tearing flesh and howls turning to gurgles. I had been right in the middle of it,kneeling in the mud beside fallen packmates, trying to st







