The Alpha's Hidden Bond
"But she doesn't work for love, Zev. She works for leverage. Whatever she gives you, she'll want something you'll hate to give."
I went. Of course I went. I'd have crawled to worse than her. My mother caught my arm at the door and said, "Whatever that woman tells you to trade, come home and tell me before you agree to it," and there was something in her face I'd never seen — not worry. Dread. But I kissed her forehead and I got in the truck and I drove two days east until the mountains flattened into a dry, wind-scoured country where the grass hissed and the dust got into everything, my eyelashes, my teeth, the seams of my hands. The Witch lived at the end of a road that stopped being a road