f broken moonlight escape through the clouds. The dry leaves crunched under her feet, and the calm of the night seemed to mock the internal s

feeling of being watched. She knew Levi was nearby. She couldn't see him, but she felt him, li

stopped dead

. Tall, muscular, yet with an unsettling elegance in his movements. His eyes gleamed with an in

ost hypnotic power. Every word seemed loaded w

e was unsettled. She knew this moment would come. She knew that

knew Levi was not someone to waste time with. His reputation preceded him,

is prey was closer than it seemed. The moon partially illuminated his face

weight of his words was as heavy as a sword. - What everyone wants. The

t away by his manipulations, he was wrong. Wolv

re was no way Isla was that naive. Levi's words weren't simple proposals

ssing the threshold that Isla had marked between them.

No romance. No bonds. Just power. You help me get what I wa

gaze told her there was more. The temptation to accept his offer was strong, but distrust kept her firm.

er voice came out stronger than she intended, filled with det

nt nothing in these kinds of games. Still, he didn't insist. Instead, his gaze soften

ut the way he posed it made the air grow tense. - Your own enemies within the pa

t wrong in his assertions. She knew it, she felt it. There were traitors among them; the echoe

coul

self. - She replied

every word that left her lips. Finally, he

and challenging, vibrated in the darkness of the nigh

breath, trying to maintain her composure, but i

o her. Rejection was in her tone, but she knew that, although she wanted to, she couldn't

ng into the shadows, she heard Levi's l

... the pack isn't w

hake the feeling that, in some way, Levi had just marked t