Luca POV“I can't believe we missed them! And by a couple of fucking hours!” I raged, kicking the door to the large shed shut angrily. Nico leaned back against the large rear wheel of the broken down tractor which had been abandoned next to the shed. We were in the middle of bloody nowhere, an hour from the closest sign of civilization - if you can call a farm stall selling berries civilization. I had never been so far into the Welsh countryside, and I didn't think I wanted to do so again. Just asking for directions in this place was a mission on its own. The council had better fucking appreciate what they had put Nico and myself through - although that was unlikely. “It won't help us if we rush in and overlook everything they have left behind. Just because they have gone, doesn't mean they left us nothing to find. Whoever they are, they packed up and vacated the premises quickly, so they're bound to have made a mistake. Let's be rational here, Alpha,” Nico tried to placate me. “Le

Eliana POV“You were right,” I told Cassie as I closed the door firmly behind me, sliding the deadbolt into place. “Your boyfriend's friends are shit!”Cassie looked up from her laptop and nodded with a grimace. “Yep, I told you so, they're all sexual and creepy.”I told her my suspicions about Thomas and she chewed on her bottom lip for a second, her mind racing. “You know, I'd heard a few stories about girls who have woken up in bed next to either Perry or Thomas without knowing how they got there. It was always put down to a lot of booze, but maybe it wasn't…”The unspoken question hung in the air between us - what would have happened if Nathan hadn't come to my rescue when he did? “I don't get why Marco is friends with them. He says they were all at school together, but that doesn't mean you have to stick it out with them through college too,” Cassie grumbled. “Maybe it's just old loyalties… you know. The bro code or some macho crap.” “Yeah, must me,” she replied, chewing her

Eliana POV“This is awful, and I don’t know how to help Yvonne without going to Nathan - but if she refuses to let us do that, then what can we do?” Cassie and I were chatting about the wedding dress fitting as we climbed up the final flight of steps to our apartment having left Yvonne on her floor below us. “Yeah, I’m with you completely. I get not wanting to cause friction between Nathan and his mother, but this whole situation is just insane!” Cassie replied. “The worst thing is that I think Yvonne thinks the problem is herself, but it’s pretty clear that the old woman would be unhappy with anyone mated to her darling son. She probably just doesn’t want to let him go!” I was suddenly very grateful for my own mother in law, even though my marriage wasn’t the typical lovey dovey one. At least I knew Valenti didn’t resent me for marrying her son. We got to our door and stopped dead in our tracks, noticing that it was slightly ajar. “Did we not lock?” I whispered to Cassie and sh

Eliana POV“Marco! I thought you were meant to be working on your assignment today,” Cassie blushed, having been caught out talking badly about her relationship with Marco. His eyebrow raised a little bit before he shook his head, “no. Today I had to fetch Perry’s brother from the airport because Perry had to do an assignment today.” Cassie turned an even brighter shade of pink as she mouthed “Oh” and stood up to give her potentially soon to be ex boyfriend a kiss. “Mixed messages, that’s all. I’m sorry,” she said sweetly, twirling a strand of her hair around her finger. “I guess you’ll have to make it up to me then,” he teased, playfully nipping on her lip.Yvonne and I averted our gazes, not wanting to be scarred by an imminent over-display of public affection. “Alright, what are you thinking?” we heard her ask (almost hopefully).“Come out to dinner with me?” Marco asked, causing Cassie to immediately bubble over with excitement. “Of course! Where are we going? I want to dres

Luca POVI hadn’t meant to be home that long. Hell, I hadn’t meant to go home at all. The plan had been to get Nico to the pack doctor and then disappear before my mother caught wind of my presence on the island. Well, that didn’t happen. In the single day that it took for me to get Nico home, he had started having stomach cramps, developed a fever and had begun convulsing as I got him into the clinic. Doc had immediately taken blood and sent me into isolation at the clinic, not knowing what pathogen we had picked up in that hell of a shed. I had been washed from head to toe with a specialised soap by a nurse who was far too enthusiastic about her job, and then given an utterly horrendous gown which was far too short and came up to my thighs, and was open in the back. “Sorry, Alpha,” Doc had the decency to seem empathetic. “We just can’t risk the rest of the pack until we know what has been brought back with you and the Gamma.”“I understand, Doc,” I had told him reassuringly, “the p