Thor

accusation, too cheerful for the utter devastation in my soul. Leo was waiting for me by the

vas bag. "The Alpha's o

my old, ruined clothes and perhap

to the black SUV idling at the curb. "It w

topilot. All I wanted was to see Ethan, to reassure myself that

d the bag, my fingers searching for the small velvet

otton, was not one leaf, but a dozen perfect, whole stalks of Moonlight Grass, glowing wi

the bed. And under that, a thick stack of cash and a c

utterly lost. Wh

ion in the rearview mirror.

eyes fixed on the road. "The Blackwood pack owes no one anything. Espec

thick stack of cash suddenly felt scorching hot, not a gift but a brand. He was paying me to disappear, erasing our night together from his ledger with a

hrow it all back in his face. I could accept a deal,

mind. It was a long shot, but sometimes a powerful c

ic impact was so violent it felt like a physical blow, and a sharp pain lanced through my skull. He had actively, forcefully, b

He had taken my body, and now he

forest, where the manicured territory of the Bl

oid of all emotion, "you have no affiliation

leaving me in a cloud of dust. I stood at the edge of the forest, the bag clutched to my c

l cry for the bond that had been shatte

e to leave it, to walk away with nothing but the

lpless, waiting for me. For him, I had to swal

rom my cheeks with

voice hard and resolute. *From this day forward, yo

Alpha who had broken my heart, and walked into the deep,