Adrian’s POVI don’t know for how long I stood there watching here clinging to my sweater but I couldn’t get enough of this adoring scene.I can’t wait to be the one she holds so dearly to her in her sleep.I can’t wait to see love bloom in her heart for me and for her to miss me whenever I’m gone like I miss her and think about her whenever we’re apart.She stirred in her sleep and I froze in my place next to her bed side.I know I look like a creep watching her sleep like this but I can’t help it. She is so fascinating.I didn’t want to get out and pretend that I haven’t been watching over her. I want her to know how attached I’m becoming to spending more time with her. So I stayed in my place but knelt down to her level on the floor as I whispered softly “Wake up, Rhea”Her eyes fluttered before they opened sleepily and fixed on me.She smiled at me softly as she mumbled “Adrian”I adore my name coming from her lips in every tone she uses.“How did you sleep?” I asked huskily as my

Rhea’s POV“Sandra told me the same thing when she saw me” I told him shyly.“Is Sandra being good to you? Please tell me the truth Rhea” he asked with little concern.“Yes, I think she is becoming a friend like Alec. She is very nice to me and I liked her more when she took my side and told you everything that happened with her sister and me. I never expected her to take my side but when she did, I decided that she is a really good person” I told him truthfully.“I’m happy you’re starting to feel more at ease among them. They all like you very much” he said lightly.“I like them too”“I’ve been thinking, or rather Lennox has been nagging, he wants to meet Hazel and I think it’s time since I know how much she’s used to being out and about before she came here. She must be agitated” Adrian said gently.Hazel instantly howled in my head in excitement and I chuckled at her exaggerated reaction.Adrian laughed at my chuckle and said “I think she’s celebrating in there, isn’t she?”“Pretty

Rhea’s POVIt took me months to recover from my first two kills. If you can even call it recovering when my soul was already dead.I was alive and breathing but it made no difference for I was dead inside.Alpha Victor made sure of it.Ever since that night, for months, alpha Victor would always order me to kill the women and children of each pack we invaded to ensure my allegiance to him and to break me to the point of no return.And I did it.I never defied him again.I never dared to help the innocent people I found hiding in their houses ever again.I killed with no mercy. I killed them and gave them the quickest deaths I could manage. I never looked in their eyes, I never kept their screams trapped around in my head, but it didn’t matter.Nightmares filled my sleep every time I closed my eyes. That boy’s face, his tears, his cries haunted me until I thought I will go crazy with the amount of guilt and suffering I was experiencing.I almost took my own life as I reached a point wh

Adrian’s POV“I’m so tired, Adrian. I thought my nightmares will end if I hold on to your scent and sleep with it. I thought it was working, but it didn’t. They will never go away until I end them myself the only way I know will work” she looked at me as she said in surrender.“No! I won’t let you harm yourself anymore! No more cutting, not under my watch. I can keep them away from you, My scent will. It has been working so far but my scent must have faded from the sweater that’s why they came back” I said angrily.She looked at me in surprise and I realized my slip up.“How do you know about….about my cutting?” she stammered.I came clean, no point in hiding it anymore. The only way to work through this is to be open and honest from now on.“I saw you do it in the bathroom a few nights ago. I got woken up from my sleep when I felt your pain through the bond. I watched you suffering in there, and witnessed how you dealt with it. I wanted to come inside and confront you about it but I

Rhea’s POV“Come on! Come on! You’re killing me!” urged Hazel in my head in a whiny tone.I chuckled softly at her impatience.I was taking off my clothes behind one of the trees while Adrian was doing the same on the other side.We were in a small clearing deep in the forest of his territory. We were getting ready to let our wolves out to meet each other for the first time.It was still pretty early in the morning but I was too energetic to feel the effects of last night’s tremendous terror that left me pretty drained. Most of the energy was coming from Hazel as she complained that I was torturing her by moving too slowly to remove my clothes.As soon as I discarded my underwear, she pushed for control and I handed it to her without any more delays.We shifted smoothly and she sprinted from around the tree we were hiding behind to meet Lennox.Except Lennox wasn’t there.Adrian still hasn’t shifted as he looked at Hazel admirably. He was naked except for his boxer.“I wanted to offic