KEENA"Careful," I hiss at Ward as he climbs the stairs in the pack house. Ward turns several shades of red as he looks in my direction. "Princess, I am doing much better," he says. I roll my eyes as Ward limps pitifully up the stairs. The tough guy show that he is putting on for everyone else isn't fooling me. Even though the burns are healing on his body he still doesn't have much strength. Though he won't admit it his lycan still hasn't awoken since he inhaled all of the wolfsbane the night of fire. When the doctors released him today I tried to argue with the doctor that he needed to stay longer but my pleas were ignored. The doctor thought that Ward would heal faster in the comfort of his own home. It didn't matter how much I grumbled or fought, I was out numbered. My family agreed that it was best for Ward to return to the pack house as well. Ward slowly limps his way to his bedroom and I run to stop him. "You are staying with me," I tell him as I lead him toward

KEENA Pacing back and forth in my bedroom, I keep glancing down at my phone. I sent Ward a text as soon as I left his room to let me know when his parents leave. Ward didn't seem too excited to see his own parents. I don't remember him saying that there was bad blood between them but the atmosphere in the room was incredibly tense. I begin to chew on the skin of my thumb the longer that I have to wait. A small knock on the door grabs my attention and I rush to the door to open it. My face falls when I see that Kayla is standing on the other side of the door. "Well, it is nice to see you too," she says as she walks into my room. She closes the door behind her and sits down on the couch in my room. "It's not that it isn't nice to see you," I say as I sit down on the couch with her. "I was expecting to see Ward." "You spent two weeks in the hospital with Ward," Kayla pushes out her bottom lip and pouts. "I haven't seen you since you disappeared." "I know," I chew on

KEENA"Round two?" Ward says as he places little kisses all over my chest. I loudly moan and grab his hair pulling him away from me. "We shouldn't," I breathe out. "You are still healing." "It is funny that you say that," Ward chuckles between kisses, "because I am feeling much better." My mind is swimming in ecstasy and all I want is to feel Ward touch every inch of my body. But I know that if I don't stop him now I won't be able to stop him at all. There is nothing stopping us from going all of the way but I am not sure that I am ready for that. Grabbing Ward by the sides of his head, I force him to look me in the eyes. "I don't think that I am ready for more," I tell him honestly. Ward rolls off to the side and glances over my body one final time with a satisfied look on his face. "Fair enough," he huffs. "I didn't really give you much of a chance to think things over." Getting up from the bed I go to walk into my closet when Ward reaches out and grabs my ass.

WARD I had to excuse myself when the Queen mentioned that the bond between Keena and I could be stronger than the mate bond. I haven't told anyone about the vision that I had before I awoke in the hospital. It doesn't feel like it is my place to tell Keena that it will be up to her to choose her second chance mate. I don't want to persuade her in any way to think that she has to choose me. It is true that there is a bond between us. My lycan had awoken just before I heard the disturbance coming from Keena's room. I shouldn't have been able to hear through the walls but I did. It sounded like a tornado in her room and I heard Keena yelling over the gusts of wind. I ran to her room as quickly as I could and tried to break down the door but the wind that was swirling in the room kept me from being able to get in. Then as suddenly as it started, the wind stopped and everything in her room came crashing down. I honestly thought that maybe I had imagined the whole thing. Then t

WARD Leaning up against my bathroom sink with my arms crossed over my chest, I listen for Keena to ask Kayla to leave but she doesn't. Peeking through the little crack I left in the bathroom door, I see Keena leaving with Kayla and my heart drops slightly. I was hoping to talk to her this morning about the vision I had before I woke up in the hospital. While I was watching her fall asleep last night I came to the decision that I would tell her what the Moon Goddess said to me. Hell, she may not even believe that it is true. She will probably think that it was just my drug induced imagination cooking up something crazy. Only I hope that it wasn't. I hope that what I saw was real. I want Keena to choose me. I want to be her mate. Fated or not we belong together. The bond between us is too strong to deny that. Now if I can get my parents back out of Lycan City without them trying to hook me up with some random girl they met on some archeological dig that would make my l