arms around her, pulling her against him. He wanted to feel every curv

at once. His dreams, her scent, her tas

were terrible. Without a healer, he wouldn’t survive. He’d blacked out, sure he was going to die. Alone a

o him. She carried him with a wolf’s strength

much he’d asked her to marry him,

h calmed him and excited him. Her words were wis

o tell them to prepare. They would have their Luna

n, she

e at the altar. Bass at

he kiss, staring at her,

so many things. Where had she been? She looked

as he’d been preparing to leave her home, to come back to his pack. Her hair was lighter now. It had been a dar

heekbones were high, her eyebrows fluttered as she

er seen her exactly like this before. How had he not recognized her immediately? H

ved such time and distance, and he marve

a kiss to her lips again. And again, and

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ling so familiar, the warmth was someth

o the attraction she’d been feeling for days. T

air almost without thinking, pullin

wed through him. An Alpha’s strength. She felt his heart beating against her chest. She felt ab

oing. She wasn’t kissing her fiancé. She was ki

’s strength was so great that no other wolf could break. So all she managed

little breathless from the kiss, but sh

uttered. “Wha

r question, like she was the one acti

eth reasoned, she

asked, frowning, though she tho

e allowed herself to forget her place so easily? She tried to squirm ou

without seeming to know what he wa

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asking him that? More importantly, wh

erstanding d

ze me,’ he thought t

ble to see for weeks. But she had. She had watched over his unconscious f

ed, how did

en she hadn’t come in months, he had gone searching for her, against the better advice of his Beta. It hadn’t mattered though, he

would return to her home. But she hadn’t. And t

g Bass on missions again and again. His Beta had searched and searched, and sti

r her. How could he? When he ha

o now? She couldn’t

my fiancé, actually? Because we’re bonded mates? Because technically we

low, careful and patient with her. He had taken some time to realize it was her. For some

her though. He

had a terrible few days, I,” James searched for something to d

or an answer, Jam

, and where had she been all this time? He’d gone back to her cabin so often, looking for her. He had been th

e had s

esides her own home, Elizabeth’s scent would be strongest there

n his funeral rites immediately. A dead body drew attention,

ght to her office. His scent still lin

wearing just a few hours ago

diately? James questioned himself.

clearly again. But something was still wrong. Why was her memory so affect

thought that someon

urt, she had already healed. But her mind was still damaged.

again, her scent awakening parts of h

firm. He would discover what had happened t