Returns to her room to find Sarah Ann putting away clothing in her closet. She’s taken away the bag she’s packed. Sapphire can’t believe they expect her to wear clothing like this. She’s used to wearing hand-me-down or discarded clothing. But these still have the price tag on them, and they’ve never been worn. These are clothes Ivory would wear. Shows new toiletries in the bathroom and she’s got multiple pairs of shoes. Even winter boots.             Sapphire finally returned to her room to find Sarah and a pile of clothing on a chair. “What’s going on here? Where did all this come from?”             “Colette returned. Poor dear got stopped by one of the annoying police officers. Which made her late. Don’t worry,

             Magnus followed her scent. It wasn’t hard to find. He was curious about what she was doing and why. He understood that her previous pack had badly used her. Sapphire might even believe that all packs were like that. He’d hoped she would stay around to see that they weren’t lying to her. That she was truly safe. Did she fear her uncle and his pack that much?             Sarah Ann believed she didn’t say half of what was in her head because she feared it was being used against her. Was this part of it? She wouldn’t stay because she couldn’t believe she could trust anyone.             He needed her as much as she needed him. They’d kissed a lot, and he thought it meant something to them. Perhaps she went for a run to clear her head? The da

             Magnus stood there bare in the moonlight; signs of the recent fight still covered his now human form. Sapphire was glad she wasn’t in her human form because she would not have found the words to respond. No man or shifter should look like that. She waffled her head and shifted her gaze from him. In her discomfort, she took a few more steps back from him. It was a show of meekness, respect, and self-preservation. What was he doing here? Did he follow her all the way? Why? He should have gone to sleep hours ago.             “Sapphire, who was that? I need to know, and I need to know now. Who did I just chase off my land? Who invaded my territory? Was he a member of your old pack?” He stopped approaching when he realized Sapphire was backing away from him. “Hey, hey, stop that. I’m not mad at you. I’m unhappy ab

             Hayden walked down the hall to leave a note for Magnus. Eric needed him to visit the library and the town’s archive at the town hall. He’d already found some confusing pieces of information about the sale of the land. Eric needed the verification of the true boundary of their territory. His documents bore no less than five different references to different boundary placements. He needed to know which one, if any, were the current boundaries.             What Hayden didn’t expect was to find Magnus curled up on a rug outside of his mate’s apartment door. He stopped dead in his tracks blinked a couple of times. Magnus had a rather large bandage on his side, and his clothes lay in a pile beside him. Well, Hayden figured at least he didn’t sleepwalk from his apartment here. He leaned down and ‘booped the snoot&rs

             Ivory now found herself trapped in her room with a guard at her door. All because Daddy didn’t like what happened. She hated how he was obsessed with Sapphire and her betrayal. Sapphire and all the secrets she might blab about to whoever would listen to her.If Daddy wasn’t thinking of her, then he was thinking of the upstart pack leader and what he could do with what Sapphire could tell him about their pack and him.Her Daddy didn’t care about Cliff at all. Ivory couldn’t visit the healer’s cabin anymore. So Cliff was alone, not with the old healer. She didn’t know what her father would do to Cliff when he got around to dealing with him.All Ivory knew was her perfectly chosen mate was now a pipe dream. She didn’t want to mate with who her father chose for her. Daddy warned her he would do so as soon as he dealt with the betrayal of Sapphire, and s