The Deaf Alpha’s Unexpected Mate
The kind of flaw that drew eyes in a world where wolves were supposed to be strong, symmetrical, and perfect.
I'd been born with it. A twisted bone in my left leg that hadn't set properly, probably because the healer who'd attended my birth was inexperienced, or drunk, or simply didn't care enough about one more orphan to do the job right. By the time Ma Agatha noticed and tried to get it corrected, the bone had fused. Permanent. The limp was mine for life.
"Stop staring at it," Ally said gently.
"I'm not."
"You are. And you're doing the thing where your shoulders hunch forward, like you're trying to make yourself smaller. Stand up straight."