The Alpha’s Unwanted Mate
Cassandra said from behind me, before I could respond, and her voice was perfectly steady, "that you have been afraid of what I am for a very long time. Which explains quite a lot about why you did what you did to my mother."
The room went very still.
Harrow's composure, which had been holding through everything else, cracked open at the edges of that sentence. It was subtle and it was fast and he pulled it back within two seconds, but I had been reading wolves for twenty-nine years and I did not miss it. "Your mother," he said carefully, "was a complication."