Reno too, with the added detail that she never made eye contact. It felt like the mere fact of my survival was an offence too big for them to get over, but I was resigned to dig my heels in and look out for myself without begging for scraps of their attention as I had done for my whole life. Never

Every eye in the room swivelled to look at me as I lifted a finger that I gently ran over my bottom lip. It came away red with blood. I hadn’t realised it until now, but when Reno backhanded me she had been wearing a ring that cut through my flesh when her blow landed and now I was bleeding.I clean

Carlos proved this by his next question.“Why haven’t you been on the training fields for the past couple of weeks, then?” For a brief moment, I entertained the thought of slamming the door shut in his face without replying and going about my day as usual. But that wasn’t even an option, because ev

The punch was powerful enough that it would’ve levelled even the strongest wolves, and yet our Alpha still remained standing. His head was turned away, so I didn’t catch his reaction until he faced Dylan who stared wide-eyed as he spat out a mouthful of blood… and grinned.“That was very good,” he c

My hands ached with a need to explore.I almost answered back, telling him that it was both. I’d been kept away from him and I’d been avoiding him. That I’d been on the brink of dying before, and being around him felt like that sometimes, except in a different, more dangerous way. That he intoxicate