BRIELLE's POV “Anya,” I called out as I entered the house, although I expected her to be at home, I could sense that there was someone inside the house. Moreover, the door had been left unlocked. “Anya?” I called out again, this time, my voice gave out my fear as it shook a little. Sometimes, we get used to things always going the wrong way and now my soul was mared deeply with fear. “Relax, it’s just me,” Giveon’s familiar voice rang out as he stepped out from my room. “What are you doing here?” I asked harshly, unable to feel any relief from knowing nothing was wrong. “That’s not a way to greet someone that’s here to help you,” Giveon said with dissatisfaction that had my brain swirling. “Help me? Why? With what?” Without processing anything, I asked as the the thoughts came to my head. “Helping you get back home, your papa is sick and needs help, so let’s go help him together,” Giveon said and then placed a traveling back that I wasn’t familiar with on the table. “I’m

BRIELLE’s POV True to his words, Giveon gave me a little over an hour even after I was done eating. Since traveling with him was going to make up for the time I would have spent walking, I didn’t say a word. There was so much I was trying to process with my thoughts and with my heart. Usually, my wolf would have a better understanding but after years of shunning Roxy, in this moment that I needed her, she was dead to me. No matter how much I had called her to explain what was happening. Why had it felt like my soul had reached out with that of Giveon earlier? Did I have some mate that I had no idea about. It was all so frightening to me. After all, interracial relationships were shunned in our world. To be specific, wolves would not mate with anyone else, anyone that did that would have to face being rejected by their pack and being lone wolves for the rest of their lives. After all, the moon goddess had granted us mates because she wanted us to keep the bloodline between

BRIELLE’s POV I guess I had either been too worried or the moon goddess had heard my prayers as Ava walked towards me with pursed lips. “You look like you are already mourning him,” she said softly as she settled on the ground beside me. For the first time, I had a good look at her face. It was almost the same. Yet, I felt like I could see the growth that came from being a mother on her. Her body was a little bigger than I remembered but I guess maybe that came from growth or maybe the child birth, but child birth hardly left it’s mark on us shifters. “I don’t dare, I was just done threatening the moon goddess that she dares not take him away from me,” I said with a wry smile and watched as Ava burst into laughter. “You now go the unconventional way,” she said and then placed her hand on my leg. “I had to grow up,” I confessed, which I also took as a silent agreement. “You had no choice,” The mood became a little sour but it wasn’t awkward or uncomfortable which I was grat

GIVEON’s POV It was hard to believe, and every minute, I’ll glance over at him to be sure that she was right here and willing to be by my side. More importantly, she had actually listened when I told her to not trust her friend, Ava. After watching Brielle for more than three years, I knew more than anyone how stubborn she was deep down in her bones. Also, she held her papa and Ava who she had come to see as a sister in the highest regard. I didn’t dare to think that she would accept me that easily. Although I understood that right now, her mind wasn’t as settled with everything happening, there was also the part of our souls reaching out earlier back in her house. I tucked my thoughts away as I watched her and Ava sit together and try to make small conversation. “You don’t have to be so obvious if you are trying to keep you both a secret from her friend,” Anya’s familiar voice rang out and my eyes narrowed as I looked at her watching how I was gazing at Brielle. “It’s i

BRIELLE’s POV The first hour of waiting wasn’t much of a big deal, I and Ava had spent time talking and playing catch up. It was nice to hear all about Kaleb and Nathan. The three of them were a beautiful family, but I felt that some part of her stories didn’t add up. Although her mother in law sounded like someone was disagreeable, she listened to Nathan which meant that if Ava wasn’t being bullied by Nathan, his mother shouldn’t. It was all hard to take in and pull apart. Perhaps, if I wasn’t so concerned about papa, I might have tried to find out more, but at this point, all I wanted to know was that papa was okay. “If papa makes it through this, I think him coming to live with me might be a better option, at least, I get to take care of him without being worried,” I said breaking the momentary silence that had built up. “That’s okay, he might even like it, he kept on calling for you the whole time that he was sick,” she said with a nonchalant shrug. It was almost like it w