Hayden stood there looking at her. Did he hear her correctly? He barely got the words out, questioning what he heard her say.             “Oh, come now. You can’t shift in here. It’s warded against things like, so you might as well come clean.” April didn’t look entertained or happy in any way. In fact, to Hayden, she looked unimpressed and irritated.             “Warded. What? Why would I…? Are you crazy? Wait, do you think we’re like the others?” He couldn’t believe she thought he was like the other pack.             “Of course, I do. What would make you different from them?” Her right eyebrow raised as she asked this, showing how skepti

             Sapphire didn’t know what else to do. She went to get dressed after leaving the bathroom, but her sundress was gone, and a new outfit was on the chair. Someone came into her room while she was in the bathroom and moved things in her room. There wasn’t much else she could do but dress in what they left there.She felt like she wore a costume that didn’t belong to her. Sapphire kept expecting someone to tell her to go change, but beyond Magnus telling her, she looked nice. She didn’t hear a single harsh word or encounter any disapproving stares.This only made her feel more self-conscious, and she feared spilling everything on the jeans and blouse. Whoever selected these things even remembered jewellery and a pair of boots. She wasn’t used to wearing jewellery, and the necklace wasn’t choking her, but her awareness of it made her mind feel like it was. She couldn&

             Cliff faded back into consciousness as the door to the healer’s cabin opened and two men carried a third into the room. They tossed him on the cot beside him with a grunt. It was Lenny, and he was looking no better than Cliff. At least Lenny’s throat was in one piece. He must have fought in wolf form because he lay there in nothing but his skin. Cliff wanted to ask him what happened, but he figured he could work that out. Lenny met with the same dude that attack him.             He couldn’t believe how violent that jerk was. Cliff wondered what he needed to prove so badly. Who was he trying to impress? It wasn’t like there was anyone worth his while or in his league at the Black Hole. That’s when he remembered Ivory the numbskull telling everyone who’d listen that she planned to mate with him and that he&rsqu

             “Now that we have proper lighting, I want to show you more of our territory.” Magnus again turned his full attention back to her. She still wasn’t sure how to understand his mood. For an Alpha, he seemed so happy and jovial. Sapphire was used to everyone around her passing judgement on her and others. She could handle being found wanting for one thing or another. But this wanting to include her in his day or dragging her with him everywhere. That concerned her.             “More? What do you have in mind?” Sapphire wasn’t sure what Magnus had in mind.             “Well, I’ve been going around every morning and looking in on the repairs and construction. Then going into the shop to work on a couple of rebuilds they have commissione

             Magnus finally got Sapphire on his bike and delivered what he needs to. From forgotten lunches to a new set of drill bits. He got them on the road to town. As they rode her silence, let him think further on the idea that Kilburn’s abuse was to keep her Luna traits buried and stunted so his failure of a daughter could benefit. But one word she kept saying bothered him. When he asked Sapphire why Kilburn called her parents traitors, she couldn’t explain the situation that labelled them as traitors. He’d never told her how they became traitors. Only that they fled the pack and were a disgrace. That reasoning sat hollow with Magnus, and it concerned him that Sapphire lumped herself into the status of a traitor because she was born to them.             Alpha wolves were most often born to alpha wolves. Yes, there were exceptions, b