Chapter 18: Back to Mistress

~Enzo POV~

I was raised training to protect the alpha and his family. I have trained since the day I was old enough to run. Every day since that moment I have done nothing but keep my promise to protect the alpha’s family, even if the only remainder is the very thing I crave to make my own. Years were spent learning to push aside emotions and make calculated decisions. Logical ones that aren’t driven by something that could make me make a mistake. Something like love.

And at the first sign of possibly losing her to another man, I decide to tell her I want her. Basically, I’m a fucking idiot.

A love drunk, needy, jealous idiot who apparently has no control over his emotions anymore. Which just made this mission of revenge more dangerous. I slipped up. When she asked for help, I should not have kissed her. I never should have allowed myself to sleep next to her in any form other than wolf form.

Yet, here I am walking myself into the room that keeps me from her because I couldn’t just