ADRIANA’S POVSomething heavy is weighing me down, is my first thought as my eyes flutter open. I try to breathe in through my mouth to control the panic but my body has already entered alert mode, my chest constricts as I desperately try to fight the invisible rope tied around my neck, stopping the air I’m gulping from reaching my lungs.The weight shifts, coming off completely and I’m able to breathe again, and that is what I do. I gulp in a much needed air, desperately though my mouth.“Shit,” a man’s deep voice says and that does nothing but fuel my panic. My eyes are open but everywhere is so damn dark, I can’t even see my hands in front of me.Damn weak genes. Situations like this make me hate how I was born, make me hate that I don’t have a wolf and their ability to see okay at night.“Adriana,” I shiver when I hear the voice say again. It is a man’s voice, quite obvious, and the heavy weight on me must have been his arm. I don’t even want to let myself think of the situation t

ADRIANA’S POVI instantly know I’m being watched, even before my brain fully wakes up from sleep. I stay in the bed unmoving, trying to steady my heartbeat so as not to alert the other person in the room with me, but knowing Xander, he probably knows I’ve been awake since before I even accepted that.I take in a deep breath and flick my lids open, one lid at a time. My eyes fall on Xander’s, his obsidian eyes looking darker than ever if that is even possible. I can’t make sense of the heat that washes through me as his gaze sweeps over my lying form, and I’m suddenly very aware of my state of undress.“Hello, little wolf.” His voice is deep, raspy. Almost like it was last night when he groaned in my ears as he….no, nope. I’m not going to let my thoughts wander.I feel better now than the first time I woke up, which thankfully means I won’t have another meltdown after remembering I gave my virginity to the one man I hate more than anyone in this life.“Are you okay?” His voice is still

ALPHA XANDER’S POV“Who the fuck is dead, Donovan?” I growl, my hands balling into tight fists.“Calm down, man.” He raises his hands up in surrender. He sees that I’m not in the mood for jokes and he sighs, runs his hands through his hair before finally speaking. “Khai.”I throw my head back and curse. I wasn’t fucking done talking to him, but I felt so much better for some reason knowing it wasn’t that damned Aiden that was dead. I know Adriana will take it a hard way and I have no idea how to explain it wasn’t some fucked up plan to kill him under the guise of it being a fight. I’m surprised by my own thoughts because I should be worried that the only person that has the information on Adriana’s mother is dead.“Fuck,” I groan. Closing my eyes.“Why did you want him alive anyways? I thought he was with the rest of the pack and you killed off all of them?” I nod, then shake my head when his questions fully register in my head.“No, he isn’t part of them.” He looks confused, I exhale

ADRIANA’S POVDaciana’s idea for the perfect distraction is to drink ourselves to oblivion then go shopping. After breakfast, she forced me to change into something more outing material. I stared at her like she grew two heads and when she saw I was not understanding what she was saying, she pushed herself into my closet and came out with a red shimmery dress I didn’t know existed.“Come on, you’ll look great in it.” she assured, giving it to me. I stared at it, a little cautious and she laughed. “It’s a dress Adriana, come on. We don’t have all day.” I look at the clock on my bedside that said it was barely ten in the morning, then I sigh and enter the closet to change.Daciana doesn’t give me shit for not changing in front of her and I appreciate her for it, more than she could ever know. When I put on the dress, my eyes immediately widen when I see it stops just below my mid-thigh and it is skin tight. It almost looks like it was sewn on my body, it leaves almost nothing to the ima

ALPHA XANDER’S POV“Then how the fuck did he get out?” the words come out as a growl. Donovan, who obviously did not have a reply to my question, only stood staring at me with a blank expression, though his jaw is clenched showing just how equally angry he is.We’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how two prisoners magically got out of their cells, faked a death and then left the pack, all without being tracked or noticed. Khai I could say is more understandable because he doesn’t even have a scent, so he can’t be traced. Aiden, not so much.And he hasn’t healed enough to even be able to pull that shit off. But now that I think about it, the whole fight seems to be a fucking ruse too.The hospital has no idea how he escaped either, the doctors said he was pretty badly bruised when he was brought in and they doubted he would make it. They sedated him and left after making sure he was fine, only to come back to an empty room. And since it is known that he is a prisoner, they all