The warriors trudged their way off the training ground, utterly exhausted. Dane stood with Henrik as they filed past, making note of how well the old Green Plains warriors were coming along.“They’d still be hopeless in a proper battle, but there’s progress there,” appraised Henrik.“They’re weeks ahead of where I thought they’d be. You’re doing a great job.”Henrik patted Dane on the back as they slowly started making their way towards the warrior building. “We’re doing a great job.”The last warrior to come off the field was Anna, a tough as nails she-wolf from Cape Point. Despite Dane’s protestations, Alpha Lucas was still reluctant to let the Green Plains women join the warrior ranks, but a

Everything went silent around Dane. He felt weightless and numb, as though for a brief moment he was having some kind of out-of-body experience. It was similar to the sensation of shifting, that miniscule second between losing his human form, and Stig taking control. His feeling of triumph at working his way back into the pack’s leadership team and having a rank Cara could be proud of, vanished in an instant. He couldn’t compete with an Alpha for rank, but surely their eight years of history, combined with his new position, was worth more than what Lucas could give her. Cara and Lucas had no history or chemistry. All he had to offer her was the mate-bond and being Luna. What Dane had with her ran deeper than a title. Didn’t it?It was then Dane noticed her suitcase next to the couch, an

Lucas’ mind had been in a constant state of turmoil ever since he decided to go ahead with the coup and remove Alpha Marcus from power. He made one decision and triggered a whirlwind of change in his life. His wolf Lando, who was usually his voice of reason, had been fixated on marking Cara, so Lucas felt like he’d been navigating this new path alone.With Cara busy spending time with Kelly, helping her cope in the aftermath of Sam’s disappearance, Lucas relaxed the best way he knew how, and escaped to the lake for a day fishing with his cousin. When they were younger, he and Joseph had spent whole summers at the lake house, swimming, mucking around, chasing girls, and talking all night. He missed those carefree days and needed more of them back in his life.Joseph had only just returned afte

Dane was doing everything he could to try and move on. Not to forget Cara – he could never do that – but to attempt at getting back to a somewhat normal life. The past few months since she’d left had been rough. He had suspected for years that he didn’t have a mate out there waiting to find him. He felt in his soul that Cara was his only chance at a happily ever after, and to see her mated to someone else tore him apart.As Head Warrior, they had issued him a sizeable home that overlooked the warrior training ground, but he found the closer he was to Cara, the more he thought about her. Wondering where she was and what she was doing, and fighting Stig’s urge to shift and go to her was slowly driving him crazy.He made the choice to move back to his house in Cape Point and commuted

Cara relaxed as she passed the border and crossed into human territory. She loosened her grip on the steering wheel and eased back into the comfortable leather seats of the luxury car that had been allocated to her as Luna.  On the passenger seat next to her sat a gym bag. She’d told anyone who asked that she was going to a gym in human territory. Supposedly, she wanted to learn some new coaching techniques that she could use when training the she-wolves. Kelly’s group of ladies had continued to grow, even more so since she became Luna. There was no evidence to suggest anybody was suspicious of her plans, but she couldn’t help but feel slightly paranoid. For one, leaving had seemed all too easy.  She had expected to have to argue with Lucas about taking guards with her, but he hadn’t even batted an eyel