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