ook like something pe
e that wasn't built to impress. It was built to remind. To make sure that anyone who stood where I was standing un
y neck prickle even though I had no wolf to respond to it. I always felt it. I had never understood why, since wolfless girls were
warmth on his face was immediate and genuine. He was tall and broad with grey at his temples,
ard to it all day. She smiled at him in a way I hadn't
hand. "Selene. I've heard so much
there for just a half second longer than normal. A small line appeared between his brows, bare
tely with a smile. "C
sts on the walls. The Blackwood wolf carved into the stone above the main fireplace. Everythi
ir voices drifting away. The pressure on my skin hadn't eased. If anything it was stronger in here,
nd Unhurried, Each step even and certain, the footsteps of someone who had never i
mach dropped straig
ly disheveled, a water bottle in one hand. His eyes found me immediately, the way they had at the ba
s moved. His jaw tightened. The wate
first, almost invisible. Then something harder underneath it. Then the cold, flat certa
e of his reaction than he'd already shown. He stopped at the bottom and looked at me the way you
with my mother beside him. "Jaxon.
Jaxon said. P
sed an eye
ckly. "Same school.
ne way to d
nderful. So you already k
When his eyes came back to mine, the
g change. But Evelyn is family now, and that makes Selene f
strils flared slightly, and something moved across his face that he controlled before it became readable.
he said. Pe
hallway to show her the rest of the house. The second th
looked
than just good looking. He was the kind of person who took up space without trying to. The Alpha aura was quieter now, more con
ou're going to
said quietly. Not an
d me yesterday morning. I swear." I held his gaze
sion. Not softening, not quite.
t my table. You exist in my territory." He said each one like a sepa
want me here," I said. "
back. "Then we unde
shoulders tightening slightly like something had crossed his min
rson I ever wanted
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