All Chapters of THE WILD ROSE: Chapter 21 - Chapter 24

You could smell the sea salt from their home and sometimes hear the waves crashing at night. Rose stood on the porch of the pack house, squinting down the road that wound out of Stonehaven.She would be eighteen in three weeks. The pack would throw a celebration whether she wanted it or not, and she would finally get her long-awaited wolf. That should have been enough to fill her thoughts, but it wasn’t. What mattered was that Xavier and Chris were coming home.Her two best friends.She could still feel the river mud from Spouts Bridge, the way it had squelched between her toes when she and Xavier and Chris had hunted frogs at dusk, the three of them laughing till they cried.The pack had called them the Three Musketeers then. She had been a year younger, always trying to keep up; they had fit together in a way that had never needed explaining.They had run the clifftops, played along the beach, swum out past the break, even when they knew they shouldn’t, and raced to the waterfall wh

They dragged her to the packhouse dungeons before she even had a chance to speak. Alpha Callans' howls haunted the lands of Stonehaven. I would never have paid that price, he had cried. By the time she was dragged to face the pack, faces she had known all her life stared at her like she was a stranger. “Why didn’t you fight beside him?” Alpha Callan’s voice cracked like dry wood. “I tried, the roses, they hid me. I couldn’t move, couldn’t even scream.” The words sounded insane even to her. Someone produced a note, Xavier’s handwriting, but the one she had received, now folded to look like she had written it, luring him to the waterfall alone. It was a trap with her name on it. She told them the truth about the mate bond. Told them how he had chosen her. Brittany stepped forward, eyes wide and shining with tears. “He never said anything like that to me. We were together. Everyone saw it.” Lying bitch, she screamed, breath tearing out of her. Rose’s heart was broken, and she