v

ke a physical weight. Along the mahogany-paneled walls, the oil portraits of past Blackwood Alphas seemed to track

my overnight bag from the guest room

he doorknob. I let out a shaky breath, thinkin

ir behind m

dominant it made my knees buckle. Before I could even turn my head, a large, calloused hand clamped a

roughly, yet effortlessly, pushe

ick

like a gunshot. I spun around, my bac

was a wall of solid muscle and dark, lethal energy. The steel-gray of

his scorching chest. He was so close I could feel the hea

ce a low, guttural growl that vibrated straight int

wildly against my ribs. "I didn't

ze, paralyzed by a terrifying mix of fear and an inexplicable, shameful heat pooling in

mured against my skin, his breath sending vi

, before trailing slowly down my jawline. He stopped exactly over my er

ed, my traitorous body leaning into his touch even as my mind screamed at me to run. I was a *wolfless* Omega; I shouldn't be feeli

f willpower I had left,

I said, my voice trembling but d

n nonsense. He took a single step back, but the oppressive weight

has abandoned you. Your mother has disowned you. You are

icing through my chest. He was right. I had noth

oked out over the vast, sprawling forests of the Blackwood territory. When he sp

ctor," Kaelon said, turning his head slightly to pin me with