RAEI turned the key slowly, wincing when the click sounded too loud in the hallway. For a few agonising seconds, I held my breath.But the door behind me didn’t open. The man inside didn’t charge out, asking where I was going.I don’t know why I had expected that. The second Rhys had left his load inside me, he’d pulled out and tripped all over himself in his haste to run away.Had I been that bad? Too needy? Too slutty?As I tiptoed to the elevator, my cheeks coloured again. What the hell was wrong with me? I’d gone six years since I woke from my coma without sex, but suddenly I couldn’t control myself.I let out a breath of relief when the doors opened in the lobby. As much as I’d wanted Rhys to explain himself, or tell me what the hell was going on, I wasn’t in the right headspace to deal with him. And part of me didn’t want him to tell me last night had been a mistake. The second I walked out of our apartment building, I remembered Jack. I was such a terrible friend. Rhys had wo

SIX YEARS AGO RHYS The call of the Super moon was stronger than ever. Maybe it was my imagination, but there was something different about this moon. Something special. Or maybe it was just because I knew my life had changed because of it. The large moon reflected on the surface of the lake, and all around me, the madness increased. Beasts that normally stayed hidden roamed and rampaged. Wolves howled and fucked. Others hunted, their strengths amplified under the Moon Goddess’ blessing. The lake rippled with signs of the beasts that roamed in its depths. Even the waterfall roared louder than it normally did. But Rae still hadn’t shown up. All sorts of fears ran through my mind. What if I was right about her family? What if they were disgusted by what she was? Maybe one of her parents was out of the picture so no one knew she was born of two Alpha with pure Alpha blood. That she was special. Maybe she shifted and they confined her the second they realised. Not every pack could acc

RAE The taxi dropped me off in front of my campus while I fumbled in my bag for my phone. I was still trembling. Had I almost been kidnapped? That man had my luggage in his car! He’d somehow entered my apartment to fuck my brains out and then again to take my belongings. Who did shit like that? I get that I’d fucked up big time, and he’d had to do something equally wrong to cover up for me, but forcing me to go on the run wasn’t the answer! And on top of that, it didn’t make sense that he was willing to upend his life for a stranger. I was in danger? I’d put myself on the radar? What the hell did that even mean? My bag dropped, spilling the contents onto the pavement. Students walked around me, snickering when I scrambled to stuff snacks, notes, and toiletries back into my cheap holdall. On any other day, I’d have been glad to see the back of them for a while, but I’d just written my last exam, so I would probably never see them again. That made my heart ache. After fumbling a w

RHYSWe were screwed. It was just pure luck that Connor drove out of the car park before Rae walked up. But Eastown was small; chances were he would find Rae if we didn’t get the hell out of town. Connor couldn’t take me by himself, but he had a whole fucked up system behind him that would. The same system that had messed me up since Rae ‘died’. The same system that would fuck Tyson up if I continued on this path.That thought was like an arrow through my heart as I struggled to take control of my beast. What the hell was I doing? As I watched Rae embrace her friend, my thoughts became clouded again. I owed Tyson my life and would choose him over Rae any day, but...She exposed us. The penalty for that was death, no matter who it was. Despite the pull that I could no longer deny, the only thing I could do for her was take her back home. Rae wouldn’t stand a chance against Connor’s elite guards, and that made me feel...My chest tightened, and my fists clenched. What did it say ab

RHYSStupid. I had been stupid for thinking with my dick instead of reasoning with her. I shouldn’t have kissed her like that.Now, I was forced to sit outside Vickie’s house, trying to devise a plan to snatch her from the stupid party that had seemed to matter more to her than the very real issue of a dead human in the park. When Vickie had taken Rae to the spa, I sped back into town to see if Fate had been on my side for once. But I had driven past two of Connor’s cars at the hotel, one outside the park and one in the back parking lot outside my apartment.I had come up with three options, none of which I liked. First, they hadn’t found anything and would stay in town longer. The second was that they had discovered that the hobo sniffing around my apartment building was a rogue and were trying to figure out how the hell he’d shifted back, which would also keep them in town longer. Third, they had found the body and tracked both Rae and me back to the apartment.I hadn’t gotten out o