I had always considered myself a reasonable Alpha. Fair in judgment and patient in negotiations, capable of separating emotion from responsibility. Then Alessio smiled at my wife for a second too long, and every bit of that reason disappeared. It wasn't logical. It wasn't even remotely justified. Alessio had saved Sienna's life long before I'd ever found her. If anything, I owed the man more than I could ever repay. He had sheltered her when she had nowhere else to go, protected my unborn children as though they were his own pack, and never once expected anything in return.Yet the faint sting still found its way through my chest. Mine. The thought arrived before I could stop it. My mate. Across the room, Sienna laughed at something Alessio had said. It wasn't flirtatious. It wasn't intimate. It was simply the easy laughter shared between two old friends who had survived difficult years together. Even knowing that, my wolf shifted lazily beneath my skin.You're impossible, Sienna's am
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