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The world around ht seemed darker, blacker, and bitterer My stomach rolled and my head spun I looked at Dominic and whispered, "She bit me"

I woke up to a wonderfully familiar smell It was , deep breath, savoring it His hand brushed lightly acrossaway?" he asked His voice hisper soft, and he pulledarms around me

"Tired and thirsty Really, really thirsty" My voice was hed

"Thirsty?" he asked and chuckled again "I think that’s the first time I’ve heard that one"

I kept my eyes closed I didn’t want to look at hi that I was sure would be on his face The sun was beating through theIts warmth touched my exposed skin and it felt so … real All of it felt real I wondered how long I had slept Was it a few hours? A few days? Was I already in transition? I wanted to be angry, but I couldn’t bringWhat point was there? It was done I was, or soon would be, one of theer seemed like such a waste of effort

We lay there silently for a long while Do circles onto lad he was there Who would have thought that this would be what brought us back together? I surely hadn’t, but in a way, I was glad for it His arhter Fuller Easier to handle I could still feel Erika’s wet tongue onto happen, Do I could just go back to sleep and pretend none of this had happened

"Well, uhter before continuing, "the first thing that’s going to happen is that you are going to have a shower, and then you’ll get dressed, and then you need to talk to Aidan"

I bolted up, pushing hie rushed overto rein inback onto talk to hier wasn’t all that hard to feel after all

That wiped the s force that hter "There’s no place in this town for a lone wolf, and hat you did to Erika …" he trailed off and took a long, deep breath "If you don’t join the pack, you’ll run the risk of creating your own, and trust me, you don’t want that Not here"

~ AIDAN ~

Dominic’s voice was loud It drifted down the stairs as if it was seekingsure I didn’t miss a beat of his conversation with Jade I wished I had missed it all The venoain hadto run to her and beg her to accept me

She was meant to be an alpha Not just an alpha, but my alpha mate I could feel it with every fiber, every vessel, every nerve ending into speak to her the way he was His voice held so htest I assumed it was because of their past, whatever that was, but still, the rest of the pack had been treating her with hostile caution and he acted as if she was just a girl And right then, I wished I had done exactly that right fro I had into her that way It was as if my inner-wolf had already claimed her and accepted her as my equal

Mr Shaw didn’t see and hard It was distracting and annoying, and I could feelsecond

He seeht to be a little pissed about his daughter, but the longer he stared at ry It was as if he was sizingto decide irlfriend’s father, and it made me overly nervous

Mrs Shaw had been a lot easier to deal with I’dand it had only taken a few short minutes to convince her that Jade would be fine She didn’t even bother checking in on her daughter before running out the door to work, entrusting her fully to my care And she had actually seemed happy about the fact that Jade had been bitten

We had been sitting in the living roo for Jade to wake up when he finally cracked an odd kind of shter is part of the competition"

"Yes, sir," I said a bit stunned I looked his of a pack’s rank were not so atme a no bullshit kind of look, one that hadon Most likely ured, and I continued with caution, "She broke Erika last night And she didn’t back down froe"