Chapter 23

Juniper

Two weeks after the disastrous day that was my birthday, Drew, Myles, my dad, and I had finally settled into a comfortable routine with our training. Drew could finally let me out of his sight for over 30 minutes without experiencing raging anxiety.

It helped that we discovered we could mindlink, and my dad said, unlike a pack link, which only works within certain distances, it’s more like a link between mates, in which you can reach each other no matter the distance.

We’d also agreed to move into one of the small cottages on the outskirts of the pack territory together, so he didn’t have to keep sleeping on the couch or the floor of my room, and so I didn’t have to move into the packhouse, which I didn’t feel comfortable with for various reasons.

We were at the stream, starting our training for the day. After it was over, we would be officially moving into our new place, just down the path from the house I grew up in.

“All right, now that we have your protectiveness unde