P A C K E D Unscramble 소설 & 이야기

Geeze, I was going to get myself in trouble if I kept making words up and guessing names. The scruffy guy grinned. "Not sexily is the key part of that phrase. We're all packmates, which means we're brothers. Jesse trusts us, but not infinitely. If we hit on you, he'd still try to kill us." So theoretically… I could get myself out of Moon Ridge by kissing his packmates so the wolf attacked them. It wasn't the most ethical plan I'd ever had, but it could save my life from a bunch of werewolves, so I'd roll with it.

Valen Words travel faster than fire. By the time I step onto Ragriz soil, my phone keeps vibrating with notifications in their tens. Packs forum, social media, group chats. I peek in maybe once or twice. Alexandra Russo Seen Entering Paxon Territory with Alpha Reid. Ex-Ragriz Center Chooses New Pack? The humans watching from the outside don’t remember who she is yet, but our people do. Every single wolf in this territory knows what it means to see that girl wrapped up in someone else’s colors.

The word settles between us, heavy and undeniable, because I can see it too now, in the way the pack watches me, in the way they react, in the way things shift when I step into a room. They may not accept me. But they are no longer ignoring me. “And you are letting it happen,” I say. His jaw tightens slightly. “I need it to happen.” “For your pack,” I add. “For stability,” he replies. I let out a quiet breath, looking away again, because everything with him always comes back to responsibility, to duty, to something bigger than either of us, and that is exactly why this cannot become something more. “Then you should be careful,” I say.