I used my influence to raise him from a low-status warrior to our pack's
ough our mind-link as they held a silver knife to my throat, but he never answe
before slapping me across the face. After I uttered the words
me, cut me with silver, and left me tied to a stone pillar in th
lly understood. He never loved me;
onciliation. He watched from the front row as I walked down the aisle, turned my back on him, and placed my h
pte
A P
s scent, a familiar mix of pine and damp earth, clung to my skin like a second self. It
gh the Mind-Link. The Mind-Link is a silent, invisible thread that connects all members of a pack, a way
at Alpha Robert Costa, my father. "I agree to the alli
hed back over the link. "Are you certain, my littl
n my mind. I didn't tell him the real reason. I didn
Water droplets clung to the hard planes of his chest. He was beautiful, and the s
ck, his familiar scent sinking into my skin, a posses
mured, his voice a low rumb
imb from a simple warrior to the pack's Gamma, our third-in-command. He was my Fated Mate, the
s a
s-packless wolves who live by savagery. They dragged me to their filthy camp wher
, my terror a raw, bleeding thing.
le
a greasy slick against mine. "He's not
ee on my own, a desperate, bloody escape that ended with me being shoved off a cli
erything. Lucian hadn't been on a mission. He hadn't been sleeping. He had spent the entire
to ash. The only thing that bloomed in its pl
Just as his tongue traced my lips, a flicker of a thought brushed against my mind. It was
hink there are Rogues outs
I have to go," he said, already swingin
d on his jeans and a shirt. He was al
whispered the words into the space b
need you
back to me. "
ce smooth as glass. "Go.
clicked shut, I re
him," I sent to one of my most t
instant. "Yes,
my phone buzzed. A video file
Lucian, was pressing Elara against a tree at the edge of the forest. His lips were on her
kin, the same sacred vow he had once made to me, a promise on
o him. His clothes, his books, the stupid wooden wolf he carved for me on our first anniversary. I remembered how I had
e of vengeance remained. And I would