Elena’s POVI averted my gaze immediately.Reality hit me at once, brutal and undeniable, and fear coursed through me again. Although Adrian was my second chance mate, and seemed to appease my wolf more than Ryan ever did, there was no way he would ever accept me. He was the Alpha King, and I was a rejected, unwanted Omega.“During the heat, I… My mind was too blurry for me to realize who you were,” I confessed sheepishly. “When I woke up, it hit me, and I… I thought you’d be angry. I was afraid you might try to… get rid of me.”Surprise and something else I couldn’t quite name washed over his face. “I would never harm you, little wolf,” Adrian swore, and the raw honesty in his words caught me off guard.A second later, he cleared his throat and looked away from me. “It wasn’t your fault. You were in heat,” he acknowledged, but the softness in his voice was gone. Now it was merely clinical. “It was my wolf who crawled to the surface and stole control.”Yet what shattered me were the w
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