Laya’s POV   Groban lead us back toward the brothers clan boarders, back to the village, and with each passing step I felt myself reluctant to go back there. Right now he wouldn’t look at me, he wouldn’t even speak to me, instead we just kept walking with me following behind him in a state of unwitting silence.   I guess he felt annoyed that I hadn’t shifted when he had tried so hard to get me to do just that, I had so many questions and they needed answers first before I allowed myself to shift into anything I didn’t truly understand. The entire exhibition seemed pointless as we made our way back without even a deer to show for us being out here in the first place, lifting my hand to touch my neck a spark shot through the place where Groban had marked me and I let out a small gasp. How did Groban know so much about my kind, and how had he been able to mark me like that. I could feel it now, it was as though I had this insane connection with

Laya POV   Crouched down beside Groban, I held onto the dagger he had given me as I waited patiently. My breathing was low and I kept my focus in the same direction as Groban, he closed his eyes as he sniffed in the air before slowly opening them again, “Can you smell that?” He whispered so softly if I didn’t have excellent hearing I would have surely missed it. Taking a whiff of the surrounding air I finally picked up the scent he was referring to, it had been three weeks since Groban told me the truth about what he really was, and in that time he had taught me to channel my senses instead of suppressing them like I had my entire life.   “I do,” I whispered back. Having his body this close to me would always end up in my senses going completely crazy, tingles and sparks ignited and all I wanted was him. Suddenly the air shifted and a different smell filled the air, turning my head in the direction it was coming from I breathed in sl

Laya POV I felt myself being pulled roughly toward the cabin and the whole while eyes were on us as I almost felt myself being dragged, I didn’t dare look up and even though I could have protested and yanked my arm away at any point, I didn’t dare do that right now. Groban seemed really pissed off at me for my complete and total unnecessary outburst and verbal attack on Ward. I was trying to make sense of why I had done that, what the hell was wrong with me. I felt weird, hot and cold and tingly all over my body. The fact that I had said that I was sorry clearly hadn’t smoothed things over like I had hoped, I mean yes I did deserve his anger toward me right now. Yes I probably shouldn’t have lashed out at Ward the way that I had, seeing that he is after all the leader of this godforsaken clan. I should have just kept my damn mouth shut, why did I have to choose that moment, my first proper introduction with Ward to blow my mouth off. I was suddenly pulled fro

I was up way before Groban woke up the next morning, I had already showered and dressed myself, and was now in the kitchen preparing breakfast. I was really hungry, it was undoubtedly because of the cold as we had officially been hit with winter last night as if blasted with the sheer vengeance thereof. Or maybe it was the dream I had last night, it kept replaying in my head over and over. Seeing Dimitrius’s face as he glared at me, and then all those women standing protectively as they surrounded me. Stopping what I was doing I leaned my one palm against the counter before placing my other hand against my stomach. My brows furrowed as I tried to shake the dream from reality, ‘It was just a dream, it was just a dream,’ I kept breathing as I momentarily closed my eyes. Sighing as I forced myself out of my reverie I quickly stood up on my tippy toes as I reached for the eggs which were on the top shelf of the cupboard in a basket, suddenly I gasped as I felt his body p

Groban POV   Three days ago I found out that Laya was carrying our pup, and honestly my stomach was in knots. I was trying to stay calm, cool and collected. Except how could I, she was carrying my own and we were stuck in the pit of a place that would kill us with no remorse if they found out what we were. This made me more anxious because now it wasn’t just us anymore, there was someone else to worry about, my baby was growing inside of her and all I wanted to do was being happy and excited but I couldn’t.   I needed to go and speak with Ward, it was winter and we were closed in with snow, there was no way that we would be able to leave now, but sooner or later we would have to leave here, the brothers wouldn’t take kindly to a pregnant female in the camp. So I had to play it smart, I had to make sure that I would be able to get Laya and our unborn child out of here when the time was right, for now at least with the heavy snow, it s