The Mate They Threw Away
I’d overheard him on the phone with Asher earlier, and the conversation had left him looking more troubled than I’d seen him in years.
The situation was spiraling beyond his control, and for someone like Kieran, an Alpha who’d built his entire identity on strength and certainty, that helplessness was eating him alive. What was happening to werewolves around the world wasn’t something he could fix with strategy or force. For once in his life, Kieran Stone was truly powerless.
And me? I was squirming in my seat, trying desperately to concentrate on the ancient texts spread before me, on anything but the way his shoulders moved beneath his shirt, the sharp angle of his jaw, those smoldering eye