Rejected: The Alpha's Fatal Mistake
"Whatever tomorrow brings, you'll face it better rested than exhausted."
"I know." She kissed him once, warm and lingering, six months of careful rebuilding compressed into a single moment neither of them wanted to rush past. "I'll see you at first light, Kade. One way or another, this ends soon."
He watched her disappear into her tent, and stood alone a long moment beneath a sky considerably darker and more star-filled than anything Blackthorn's lower elevation ever offered, drawing whatever steadiness he could from the vast, indifferent quiet of it, before finally turning back toward his own preparations for a dawn that felt, standing there in the cold mountain air, both impossibly close a