Alpha Ian’s POVOnce I got it in my head that I was going to find Ezekiel and bring him home, the idea would not leave me. I thought about it constantly, even in moments when I was surrounded by other people. Sometimes hearing what the entire pack were saying about my former best friend almost served as a deterrence but the desire always returned.As it stood, nobody seemed to want him to return. Nobody had anything good to remember him by. All our age-mates seemed relieved that he was gone. During our training sessions, it was all they talked about. It made me dizzy. I keep overhearing conversations and people saying he made them uncomfortable, even when he was supposedly on his best behavior. Some said he made them angry unprovoked, but the majority of the young wolves seemed to have feared Ezekiel. This wasn’t exactly new to me. I knew that as much as our trainers admired him for the amazing warrior that he was, his personality made them wary of the type of Alpha werewolf he would

Alpha Ian’s POV I rode the elevator all the way to the penthouse and Ezekiel buzzed me in like he promised. Once that door swung open and I saw him standing on the other side, dressed in a pair of loose sweat pants and a black shirt, hair still wet from what was no doubt a shower before bed, I completely broke down. I rushed into his arms and he held me up as I collapsed against his body. I started sobbing, burying my face in his neck. I was soaking the soft skin.“It’s alright,” he said. “I’ve got you. Ian, I’ve got you. You’re here now.”He kept repeating the words but they were going over my head. At least, for now, I could barely process everything that was going on. But I was aware of the fact that I was finally with my cradle brother again. The terrible ache that had been in me since the day he was kicked out was slowly receding.His arms were wrapped around me, his body was solid against mine and I was enveloped by his scent. That was all my brain could compute in the moment.

Alpha Ian’s POV“What the fuck, Ian?” Denise exclaimed, fixing me with a shocked look.In fact, everyone in the Study was staring at me as though I’d grown two heads. What I’d revealed was indeed shocking, given that when Dominic had suggested Ezekiel had a crush I had acted as though I was none the wiser, as though nothing remotely romantic never happened between us.That wasn’t the truth. Goddess, that was far from the truth. I didn’t know why my first instinct had been pretending and then blatantly lying and omitting. Maybe it was the shame. It had to be.If I admitted to knowing about Ezekiel’s true feelings, I had to acknowledge mine, something I never truly did, especially after the catastrophic way my stay at the penthouse had ended. All I did was suppress those memories and pretended those feelings never existed, pretended as though everything hadn’t changed between Ezekiel and I starting from the first night I stepped foot in that penthouse.But maybe it was high time I let i

Alpha Ian’s POVAfter I asked my best friend to kiss me, he released a sharp exhale of breath. Ezekiel placed his hand on the apple of my cheek, his finger caressing the cheek bone. His touch was incredibly featherlight and gentle. My gaze was fixated on his parted lips. The same way his was fixated on mine.“Zek…”“Are you sure?” Ezekiel whispered the words. “Ian, are you sure you want me to kiss you?”“Do you not want me to?” I asked, voice small, as the fear that I’ve misread the situation took over.“Of course, I want to,” Ezekiel said with a shaky laugh. “It feels as though I’ve never not wanted to kiss you. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t.”His words left me feeling floored. I was overtaken by strange emotions, echoes and fragments of things I felt at some point in the last sixteen years of my life with Ezekiel by my side. There might have been times when I craved him even when he was beside me, but I never understood why that happened. There were many times when I felt a

Alpha Ian’s POVIn the days that followed after my first night in the Penthouse with Ezekiel, it was as though we were enshrouded in a fervent haze of infatuation and lust. It was more or less a honeymoon phase and I absolutely forgot about the fact that I’d run away from home. My parents wouldn’t be worried. They knew me well enough to know what my disappearance signified. They would know I’d reunited with Ezekiel by now. If anything was going to worry them, it wouldn’t be where I was, but what I was doing. They would be furious. I knew this much. Especially my father.My mother would be trying her best to stay positive and calm him down as much as she can. She wouldn’t be incredibly successful though. No, something like this would make my father go ballistic. He was probably cursing me to high heaven, and breaking everything, he could lay his hands on. Everyone would feel the need to tiptoe around the Alpha of the pack whenever his legendary temper was triggered. I was so gratef