As the introductions were finished, they moved into the smaller dining room, with Colin and Adina leading the way. Colin showed Adina to her seat next to him at the head of the table. Sean sat to her right and the rest of the guests placed themselves at the table.The mood was friendly; the food was splendid, and Colin made sure Adina felt included in the conversation. This made Adina relax, and she found herself having fun. She and Julia talked about books that they both had read and Colin and Mateo even got Sean into a conversation with Jason.“You seem to be happy,” Colin whispered in Adina’s ear. She smiled at him.“I am having fun,” she admitted.“I knew you would. You are home,” he said, satisfied, letting his arm draped around her shoulders.Adina gave him a small smile and gently shook her head. This was not the time and place to have that discussion. At this moment, she was happy to be sitting with her mate’s arm around her, listening to Sean’s voice was relaxed and surrounde
Adina’s POVAdina woke up feeling safe and relaxed. As the world slowly came back into focus, she realised she was still in Colin’s arms. The realisation made her smile and look up at him. He was already awake, looking down at her.“Good morning,” he said.“Morning,” she answered and tried to stretch, but found Colin held her too tightly. She gave him a soft push. “I need to stretch,” she told him.“No can do, I’m not going to release you now that I got you into my bed,” he said.“Not fair. I always stretch first thing in the morning. It’s one of my favourite parts of the day,” she said with a pretend pout.Colin sighed and relaxed his embrace, and Adina could finally put her arms over her head and let the muscles tense and then relax. When she opened her eyes, she saw Colin letting his eyes trace the length of her body.She realised her nightgown had risen and had made her legs bare, almost exposing her panties. Before she could reach down to pull it down, Colin made eye contact with
Colin’s POVThe rogues had nothing to do with Adina, Colin was almost certain of it. He had spent most of the morning questioning them. The two rogues were in bad luck. After being interrupted from his morning with Adina, Colin had a lot of frustration to get rid of. After feeling satisfied that he got all the information he could from the rogues, he had killed them.Two single rogues were at no risk to his pack. Most rogues weren’t. But sometimes rogues banded together in larger groups. Then you had a serious problem. He knew this from experience. It was a lesson he didn’t need to be taught twice.To be on the safe side, he didn’t want the two rogues to go free. He couldn’t be a hundred percent certain that the two of them didn’t work for someone else or had banded together. Better to be safe than sorry. His priority was the safety of Adina and the pack.“I know the luna and Sean came here for protection. What are we protecting them from? Do we have a rogue army issue?” Mateo asked C
Colin’s POVThe news that Doc had given them was indeed bad. Colin would take on hordes of rogues instead of this type of issue. Rogues he could at least do something about.Something like a sick pup just made him feel helpless. It had surprised him that Adina had asked to help the boy. But hadn’t Aries said something about her having medical knowledge? Colin had been so proud of how she had handled Mrs Morgan. A true Luna.Now she stood bent over the boy and had placed both of her hands on his little body. Colin’s eyes grew bigger as a soft yellow light started spreading from Adina’s hands. Mrs Morgan drew in a sharp breath, and he placed a hand on her shoulder. Whatever Adina was doing, he had a feeling they shouldn’t interrupt it.He watched how his mate’s hands glowed and how her face looked serene. She was always beautiful, but as he looked at her now; Adina looked like an angel. She stayed that way for almost five minutes and then the light admitting from her hand slowly disappe
Adina’s POVColin’s treatment of her neck was seriously messing with her head. If she didn’t make it stop, they would end up right back where they were this morning. Nothing wrong with that, she thought for a minute.Yes, they needed to talk about her phone conversation with Markus. With a sigh, she resigned to the fact she would most likely die a virgin and slid down Colin’s body. At first, he thought it was a seduction move, just to discover it was a way to get away from his wonderful mouth long enough to clear her head and put some distance between them.“Okay, let’s hear it. Who was it on the phone?” he said, running his fingers through his hair.“Dr Markus Müller, a friend from the joint medical centre. He was my instructor during my time there,” Adina explained, sitting up and facing him.“Do instructors often ask their students out for dinner?” Colin asked, and Adina blushed.“It’s not like that. He was very professional during my stay. Once my studies were finished, he showed
Sean’s POVSean was sitting in the kitchen, drinking a beer, and talking to Jason. One perk of moving between packs was the opportunity Sean had to talk to the gammas, to learn about different fighting techniques and styles. That way he could continue to evolve and if they were open to it, he was more than happy to share his experience.Sean had found Jason to be very open and the two of them had fast started walking down the path toward friendship.As the two of them were sitting and waiting for the BBQ to get hot, they talked about different training techniques. Alpha Colin came walking downstairs, looking like someone had force-fed him a bushel of lemons. Sean could guess who had put the alpha in a bad mood and hid a smile.Colin walked to the fridge and grabbed a beer, and leaned against the counter as he took a swag out of the bottle.“Want to talk about it?” Jason asked, shooting Sean a look.“No,” Colin said. Jason was just about to resume their previous conversation when he wa
Adina’s POV“Did anyone tell alpha Dean he was on the shortlist?” Sean asked.“No, you know how we do it. We pick three or four candidate packs and bring them to you, and then Adina decides which one you will go to. Then we reach out to that group and make the arrangements.” Cernack explained.Adina could see Colin turn his head towards her. This was news to him. She turned towards him and nodded at the question he hadn’t asked, but that she knew he had. Yes, she had decided to come here, and she had chosen it before others. That earned her another kiss on top of her head.“Most alphas that come from an alpha line know about me and how we move around,” Adina said. “It’s not surprising that he knows about me. What is surprising is that he is trying to contact me and that he has reached out to Colin to do it.” She continued.“Cernack, I want you to call him and ask about it. We can assume Colin isn’t the only alpha he has contacted. If he asks why you are calling, tell him an alpha reac
Colin’s POVColin looked down at the perfect goddess in front of him. She was completely naked except for a pair of lacy panties. Her light blond hair was spread across the bed, and she looked like an innocent angel. If you didn’t look in her eyes, that is, her eyes were deep pools of desire and it turned him on like nothing he had ever experienced.“You are fucking perfect, baby,” he said in a husky voice.He watched as she gently bent one of her legs, rubbing her thighs together to soothe her ache. Colin could smell her arousal, and it drove him crazy. He bent down over her, placing kisses on one of her thighs, slowly moving upwards. He could hear her breathing become faster and shallower.Once he had almost reached her core, he stopped and started doing the same to her other thigh. She let out a disappointed whimper that made a smile cross his lips. She let her hands run through his hair and tried to pull his mouth up towards her centre. He let her pull his head up, but did not tou