Jane’s POV‘Oh my god,’ I breathed. ‘Ina?’A silver wolf had burst from within me. I stared down at her, completely dumbfounded. ‘What? Hang on – did you say Alpha? I’m an Omega. I’m Jane, and I already have a wolf. Her name is Nina, which is one more letter than yours…’ I shook my head. ‘Who are you?’‘What? You already have a wolf? Then how can I be here for you? The Moon Goddess sent me here – well, okay, actually, I just got attracted to the smell of pizza and went over to smell it… but I’m sure that’s what she wanted me to! Now I’ve found you, my Alpha, and as you can see,’ she fluttered her lashes, ‘I’m just a beautiful Alpha she-wolf.’ She lifted her head to the sky and howled.‘But I… I did have my wolf, on the night I turned eighteen.’ I stammered over the words, so dazed and confused that I felt numb all over. ‘Her name is – was? – Nina. I’m sure it wasn’t you…’I was struck with worry about Nina. She’d been gone for so long. Had she got the wrong person and end up being som

Jane’s POV“So she is you!” Hunter stepped closer to me, his upper lip curling. “S, tell the Shadows they can stop searching.”Why couldn’t he just leave me alone? The second I saw him step out of my house, my anger burned white-hot; it blazed through me like an inferno. I just wanted one moment of peace. He was always around, always getting involved where he wasn’t needed or wanted. He’d poisoned our children – and now, what? Was he going to arrest me? Kill me? I bared my teeth at him.Ina shifted out again, my anger filling her veins. ‘What?’ she gasped. ‘Those are your children with him? You had them together?’ She struggled to get her mind round it. ‘How could he try to kill them?’She howled at him. It was no greeting; it was the bloodthirsty sound of vengeance.Hunter was so calm. Too calm. Ina gnashed her teeth, sizing him up; he looked right back at us, staring through Ina as if he was trying to use x-ray vision to see through her into me.He took another step towards us. I fel

Hunter’s POVWhen I held Amy and saw Jane’s cold blue eyes, I knew she’d misunderstood. But it didn’t matter if she hated me – not if she was alive. That was all that mattered to me right now. I had to keep her safe.This was my fault. I never should have shown my interest in her so blatantly, especially not in front of Amy. That was why she’d ended up tangled in the knot of my mess.Jane was just an Omega. She wasn’t able to defend herself the way I could. Hell, Ivan’s silver spike could’ve killed her. He could’ve done it with less – even a bloody nail ripped from the fence. She had no idea what she was up against.I bit back a sigh. Reg, however, let out a loud sigh, uncaring who heard. My heart pinched at the sound. I’d never seen him look so sad. ‘What are you sighing for? Didn’t you want to try and make her hate me? Well, now she does.’He sighed again, even more dramatically this time. ‘Well, Hunter, I was trying to make her see flaws in you to more clearly show the good in me.

Hunter’s POVThousands of thoughts flashed through my mind. I tried to make sense of what I’d seen, tried to understand what it meant for me, but I kept circling back to my father. If I were him, why would I have done this? And what would I do now? My head pounded, the weight of my unanswered questions slamming full force against my skull.I was almost relieved when S spoke, his calm voice cutting through my inner turmoil. “Alpha, the doctor said Luna Amy is in a very bad state. Without the antidote, both she and her baby could die.”That was a problem I could solve. “Right,” I said, forcibly relaxing my tensed shoulders. I had to put Ivan and the butt-birthmark mystery aside. Amy and the baby needed me.And I needed that baby, too. He could be useful to me. Shameful though it was, I had to use him. I had to use him to find out who Ava’s kidnappers really were, and to work out what they wanted.“S, are Ava and the two boys okay?” I asked, heading to the stairs and away from the blood

Hunter’s POVAfter the damn horror show of watching Jane feed her sons her own blood, I went to visit Carl in his hospital room. Unlike Jane, he didn’t have any personal belongings on the nightstand, and he was staring with empty, dazed eyes out of the window even when I rapped my knuckles on the open door.A wide bandage was wound around his neck, keeping him propped up at an awkward angle. The nurses had fluffed up the pillows at his back and tucked the sheets around his lap, atop which his arm rested with an IV sticking out of his wrist. He’d lost a lot of blood yesterday, but I knew his injuries weren’t as bad as they seemed. Wolves healed fast, and I’d been controlling my strength yesterday. I’d meant to teach him a lesson, not kill my own Beta.Carl drew his gaze up to me, his throat bobbing and his mouth opening and closing uselessly. I must’ve really hurt his throat yesterday. Then he dropped his eyes to the starchy white bed sheets. He didn’t know how to face me and, as I ho