“You must go into the panic room,” Colin told Adina.“Colin, I can help,” she protested. Colin looked at Sea,n and Sean nodded. He understood.“Adina, the panic room. Now,” Sean said.“Sean,” she said.“One rule,” he told her. She sighed and nodded.Sean went into full protection mode. He stayed glued to her side. Sean was right there even when she hugged and kissed Collin.“You too, Julia,” he heard Mateo say, and Julia let out a small sob.Sean and Colin looked at each other again and nodded once more before Sean led the two women towards the library. He would have liked to fight some rogues himself. Let off some steam. But he knew his place was by Adina’s side.As they arrived in the library, the door to the panic room was already open, and pack members were moving down at a steady pace. They stopped and offered Adina to go first.“No, you go. Sean and I will make sure we don’t get ambushed,” she told them.Sean would have felt better with her in the shelter, but the one door into

Adina’s POVThe day that followed the attack was stacked with tasks to be done. As Adina had been formally introduced as Colin’s mate and they had marked each other, the pack treated her like their luna. To Adina’s surprise, she didn’t have as much trouble fitting into the role as she thought.The rumours about Adina healing five members of the pack spread quickly. Both Adina and Sean had seen different reactions to her abilities from packs and had learned that it was better to be prepared for a bad reaction. To their surprise, the pack showed nothing but gratitude and amazement.“Maybe it was destined that we end up here,” Sean said to Adina, Colin, and Jason as they had gathered in Colin’s office to go through what was left to be done.“Of course, it was,” Colin said. “Adina is my mate; the goddess wouldn’t have given her a mate with a pack that couldn’t handle her abilities,” he continued confidently.“You’ll have to ask her sometime,” Sean said with a chuckle.“You can speak to th

Colin’s POVColin could see the tension in Adina’s shoulders. He itched to place his arm around her, to comfort her and make her relax. But this was not the time. She needed to look strong. That meant that he needed to step back. And it was killing him.They were walking down the hallway; Cernack was leading their way. Adina walked behind him, and Colin and Sean flanked her on each side, half a step behind her. Their warriors were surrounding them.As they arrived at the conference room, Cernack went up to the two warriors guarding the door, a werewolf and a vampire.“Open up” was all he told them.“Who are we announcing?” the vampire said.“You are just going to open the door,” Cernack told him.“We need to announce any guests and wait for a response,” the werewolf told them.“I have the Beloved One with me. You are going to open those doors, and then you will leave the guard duty to these gentlemen,” Cernack told them, nodding toward the warriors they had brought with them.Both gua

Sean’s POV Sean stood up and cursed himself for letting the words slip out. Now there was nothing he could do to take it back. He had just ruined his chance to stay by Adina’s side. He waited for Adina to yell at him, but there was dead silence. Sean turned around and saw Adina looking like her heart had shattered into a million pieces. He stopped breathing. What had he said that would cause her to react like that? “Why don’t you want to be my friend?” she asked. There was a slight tremor in her voice. It felt like physical pain to Sean. “Nothing, I shouldn’t have said it. Forget it,” he mumbled. “No, Sean. If you feel like we can’t be friends, I need to know why. I won’t force you to be my friend. But I need to know what I did to make you feel like that,” she said and walked over to him. That’s when Sean understood that Adina had interpreted his word to mean that he didn’t want to be a part of her life. “Adina, I didn’t mean it like that. You have done nothing wrong,” he said,

Kissing Sean was nothing like kissing Colin, Adina realised. It wasn’t worse or better; it was just different. With Colin, there had always been a driving need, a raw hunger. With Sean, there was passion, but a patient passion, something that had been waiting under the surface for years and now finally was free. Sean deepened the kiss, and Adina got lost in it. She let her hands move up into Sean’s brown hair. Sean nibbled on her bottom lip, and Adina let out a sigh. Then she felt the same warmth as Sean pressed against her front, press against her back. Colin had walked up behind her, and Sean cupped her ass and drew her even closer to him. Colin let his hands rest on her waist as he started kissing the mark he had given her and up along her neck. Sean mirrored Colin’s kisses on the other side of her neck, and Adina moaned in pleasure. Adina could feel the result of her make-out session with Sean pressing up against her stomach. She felt Colin move his hands over the side of her ri