The Bet That Cost Him His Mate
The downpour began.
I instinctively flinched, all the color draining from my face.
I had a crippling fear of thunderstorms. When I was a pup, I was attacked by rogue wolves during a stormy night. The trauma had haunted me ever since.
Wyatt knew this.
During our first year together, to calm my fears, he held my shaking body and wrote a vow on a piece of paper: "I, Wyatt, swear on my wolf that for every thunderstorm from now on, I will hold Valerie in my arms and never let her face the dark alone."