Hunter’s POVIt was time for my memories to come back.Now Jane knew how she felt about me, deep down, we needed to be able to develop our new connection. She couldn’t do that with a giant baby; she needed a little taste of the real me.Reg poked his head out around the block, his paws covering his eyes. ‘Is it safe to come out?’ he asked, lifting one paw slowly and squinting out at me.‘Drama queen,’ I muttered. ‘Yes, it’s safe.’‘Well, I can’t be too careful with you around, Hunter!’ he chided. ‘Remember that time I saw you doing a naked conga line? You were holding a pineapple, yes, that’s it!’ He laughed. ‘And then you put the pineapple on your head and did the helicopter–’‘Sorry, who are you talking about? Because that sure as hell wasn’t me.’‘Well, it was you if I say it was.’ He shrugged.My face paled. ‘Do you – do you make stuff up like this regularly? And do you tell people this nonsense?’‘Oh, yeah! All the time! Ian loves hearing it, and he’s such a gossip he tells every

Jane’s POVColin spun around, leaping at Keila again. She shifted before he could touch her, her big wolf form sprouting from her flesh. She snarled at him, lowering her muzzle to snare his shirt as he skidded to a halt in front of her.He was an Alpha. I didn’t understand why he didn’t just shift! An Alpha wolf would easily be able to handle Keila’s rogue wolf. Then I remembered what Ina had said before – that Alpha Colin didn’t have a scent because he was hiding a big secret. Did that secret have something to do with the fact he never let anyone see his wolf form?Keila shuddered, shifting out and holding Colin flush to her naked body. She licked a trail from his collarbone to his ear, laving the skin behind his neck. He was completely expressionless as she did, but the second she stopped he met my gaze with desperation in his eyes.“Jane, please,” Colin said, staring at me with huge brown eyes that looked so, so familiar for a moment that I frowned at him. Was it his resemblance to

Jane’s POVStood alone in the dark, with even Ina blocked out, I didn’t know how long I waited. My ears strained constantly to hear anything, but no sound reached me in the dungeon. Cool air made my naked skin prickle. If I thought about Colin, I would be torn apart – half by lust, half by terror. I could still feel his hands mapping out the contours of my body, his tongue laving the soft spot behind my ear, his fingers teasing…But where had Keila taken him? What was she doing to him? Somehow, I didn’t get the feeling that she was pretending the way Leif was.Eventually I heard the soft slide of a door opening upstairs. I twisted around, wishing I could hug my arms around myself. “It’s me, Jane,” said Leif, and I couldn’t decide if I was more relieved or disappointed that it was his voice and not Alpha Colin’s. I grunted into my gag.“I’m coming, I’m coming,” he muttered. His rapid footsteps accompanied his words, and a moment later I heard the grind of metal as he opened the cell

Jane’s POV‘Her what now?’ cried Ina, putting her paws over her ears. ‘No no no! It can’t be! Colin can’t be that crazy lady’s mate! She just wants to use him and lick his abs. Not that I can blame her for that, they are delicious…’I stared at Colin, my mouth going slack. He wasn’t looking at Bea, the so-called mother of his mate. He was looking at me.‘Keila isn’t his mate,’ I scoffed. ‘He’s lying. Is it just to get a reaction out of me?’ From the way he was analysing my every breath, I had to think so. Then my heart dropped. ‘Is it just to hurt me?’ My chest panged. ‘I’d started to think Colin was different. I shouldn’t have let myself forget that all men are trash, Ina.’‘Don’t talk about my Chef Colin like that,’ said Ina, but she didn’t sound as sure of herself as usual.Bea gasped. “Both of my children have found their mates? And one is the Alpha of the Desert Assassin pack, no less?”She fell into excited conversation with Alpha Colin. I sat rigidly in my seat, waiting for a g

Leif’s POVI scratched a hand through my thick beard as I watched Keila trail her hands all over that red-headed man’s muscles at the public market. I was used to her pulling stunts like this, using our family’s business as a way to conduct a seedier business of her own, but this was it. This was all I could take. ‘Wow,’ laughed Bry, my wolf, ‘she’s really going for it today.’I wet my dry lips and sighed. ‘Isn’t she just,’ I replied flatly, unable to draw my gaze away from Keila’s body as she placed her hands on the guy’s chest and dug her nails in. It didn’t seem to bother her that he winced. If anything, it seemed to egg her on.She’d taken it too far this time. Our family had a reputation to uphold. These newcomers didn’t seem to realise who she was, but I could see the way the regulars at the market rolled their eyes and shook their heads. It was like she didn’t just take any opportunity she had to jump some guy’s bones, she made opportunities to do so herself.It had all starte