Todos os capítulos de His Secret Second: Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 50

(Danny POV)By the time that I finally heard from Jenna, I was going out of my mind.I wasn’t sleeping. I was barely eating.Everyone around me thought that it was because I was worried about Beth, and I was. But it was more than that. I missed my mate. My new mate. My Jenna.It didn’t matter that I had only known Jenna for a short period of time. If anything, being apart from her had made clear that she had already woven herself deep within my soul. I needed her like I needed air to breathe. I didn’t regret convincing Kade to alpha-order her to stay at the pack. If anything, I regretted not figuring out a way to have brought her with me to Vermont.I had hoped that our trip here would be short, but things were worse than I expected. Beth’s tumor was far more aggressive than the doctors expected it to be, and she was struggling. In addition to the seizures, she was experiencing frequent headaches and balance issues.I stayed by her bedside as much as I could, hoping that my

(Danny POV)I was smiling before the car even turned down Jenna’s street.Finally —FINALLY— I was going to see my mate. After weeks of distance, tension, and unfinished conversations, everything else felt smaller in comparison. Temporary. Fixable. Pale in importance.Even so, I knew —deep down— that I shouldn’t have handled things this way.Kade had warned me. Multiple times.“You cannot blind-side her, Danny,” he’d said earlier. “She’s spent almost the entire day getting ready for this. She thinks this is a real date.”“It IS a real date.”“With your ex-mate?” he asked dryly.“Not just her,” I pointed out. “It is an entire group.”“Jenna thinks it will be just the two of you. You need to tell her.”“If I tell her, she won’t agree to come.”At that point, Kade stopped arguing, because he knew I was right.So I stuck to the plan: See Jenna. Surprise Jenna. Make it up to Jenna. Have special dessert with Jenna.Easy. Or so I hoped. But really, it had to be easier than how th

(Jenna POV)I woke up the next morning to a text from Ashley.“How did last night go?” she asked.I looked at the clock. It was 7:45 in the morning.“How are you awake?” I typed.“I haven’t been to bed. My nephew came at 6:30 this morning.”Along with her text was a picture of the most adorable little pup.“Awwwww. He’s adorable. Please wish your sister congratulations from me. Name?”“Xavier Michael. Now stop avoiding. How did it go?”My fingers hovered over the letters on my phone.“It was the worst night of my entire life,” I typed. Then I deleted it. “Fine,” I sent instead.“You are such a liar,” Ashley shot back. “I called Kade before I texted you.”I groaned. Of course, she did.“Kade told me what happened. I can’t believe Danny would do that. How are you doing? Are you okay?”“I’m fine.”“Stop lying.”“Jenna, so help me, don’t make me get on an airplane just so that I can kiss your a&& along with Danny’s. Tell me the truth.”I stared at the ceiling for a long mo

(Nick POV)My second visit to the Blue River Mountain Pack wasn’t planned. I went at the last-minute, for no other reason than the surprise detour seemed like a fitting use of my time.When I arrived, the pack’s gamma met me at the gates. He was startled to hear that I had been communicating with Ms. Maxwell, and he was horrified to learn that she had offered me breakfast.I watched with interest as he mind-linked his superiors, quite obviously trying to work out a plan.As the alpha king, they could not deny me entry into the pack, but I did not point that out. I was there for the show, and the more they scrambled, the more confident I was that the pack would deliver.They ultimately kept me waiting for 20 minutes. It was not long enough to be insulting —especially given the beverages they kept offering to me— but it was too long to be accidental.I had learned early in my reign to appreciate the difference. Some delays are the result of incompetence, and other delays are the kin

(Jenna POV)I should not have accepted the alpha king’s hand.But I did.Not long enough to suggest anything inappropriate was going on between the two of us. Not long enough to cause a scene.Just long enough to steady myself.And long enough to get back at Danny.I had agreed not to make any decisions yet, which I knew really meant that I was agreeing to give him a chance.I wasn’t going to change my mind. Not yet.That didn’t mean that sitting there at breakfast —listening to his mother call me a bastard and listening to Beth claim him as hers— wasn’t hard on me.In fact, I had underestimated how hard it would be.Danny had tried to mind-link me throughout the breakfast, but I had mostly ignored him. I didn’t need to watch Beth play up the mate act while listening to Danny apologize at the same time. Or at least I hoped Beth was playing up the act. Goddess, the possibility that she really felt that way was too much to bear. I forced that thought out of my head.I didn’t have