ane

guest rooms. The space was luxurious but entirely sterile. The air smelled of lemon polish and ancient wood, a sta

uiet didn

stantly polluting the room with the sharp, acrid stench of sour rain and desperate heart

"I'll march right up to Hunter and tell him everything. Once he knows his precious fiancé is a

war between two powerful packs over a female who just used you! And aren't you a hy

intensity. "When she's the other half of your

eed for him anymore. I looked into his frantic

id, my voice flat and merci

ind a hollow, jagged shock. His Inner Wolf let out a phantom

stomach twisting

ser, his nostrils flaring as he inhaled deeply. The sour rain scent turned bitter, laced with a sudden, territorial

huh?" Finn sneered, his voice dripping with venomous jealousy. "What else di

to talk about betrayal? You lied to me for a decade! You never told me your Alpha brother lived in New York. You

"He's manipulating you, Sloane! You don't know him. Our

s. Always. Abo

rd, pouring a decade of exhaustion and d

gile sanity snapped. Deprived of Delilah and now facing the loss of h

t with its strings cut. He curled into himself, burying his face in his hands as ragged, pathetic sobs

. But seeing him so utterly broken triggered that deeply ingrained, toxic nee

arms around his shaking shoulders. We sat in

eeded to pull him out of this spiral, even if

me with red-rimmed eyes. "Knox... he showed me a glimpse of this dark, terrifying w

escape his pain, a chance to play my protector again. He wi

ling himself up. "A Rogue club on