et's

aden appeared, helping me escape the horrors that had held me for what felt like e

t.

hed from one nightmare

er pack, Xaden's pack s

ng mountains of his bone-chilling territory. The cold was insane

and wrapped his coa

s froze on my tongue when h

"Besides, the cold neve

pink and I turn

out of Xaden's lips

body closer, making my bac

afe in h

t, everything

r journey, I lear

ver he looked at me or how he loved cuddling me everytime he was near me or even h

ink there was somethin

didn't

ot when he healed me, mount our horse with caref

t.

tries to say something and doesn't,

e, a towering castle in the mountain

t without thinking but it was bet

ack was to me but I co

led to a fis

k at me." I

and for a long moment,

u choose me

ulders

Alpha's King's daughter. She... she was your

ushing his fingers o

I was

ira because y

I was hi

hear

ng away but he wouldn't l

stance between us. "You wer

wasn't help

is fingers against a faint scar on my wr

r was barely noticeable. But I d

an, I've had lots of scars in the past. M

" he calle

to meet his

he said. "Promise me you would

iercing golden orbs that glisten

ed. "X

my face in his chest. "You didn'

car softly as if willing me

ractions – a whispered vow, a heavy applause fro

and I felt Xaden

said, stroking

g breath le

ve." He buried hi

ppened?"

you want to kn

m keep the secret to himself but I

I whi

d. "When you and I were children, our p

but Xaden would

s would happen. "You were promised to me, long b

ould've remem

rom me, Violet." He pu

My brows

ad. "You were stolen from the pack when you were just a c

roared in

They? Who too

too much for

tack. My life... my who

searched all over for you, Violet. And when I sa

wrong. But the way he looked at me – the desperat

inside of me, s

was

g for it but c

oice cut through my thoughts. "

"But... what if

mem

bo

tr

it all but I

don't remember?" I r

ushed his lips against min