“What? You were all thinking it, I just said it,” she said, doubling down. “We all knew that rescuing her would lead to something like this.”Rescuing ‘her’? I thought to myself as the edges of my mouth turned downwards.Another Committee member, after Agnes’ follow up statement, cleared their throa
Layla’s POVA day after the meeting, my attention was called to a situation at the Pack gates. In and of itself, the fact that I had been called to resolve the minor issue was no longer as strange to me as it’d been when it initially started happening after I returned back from the Crimson Shadow P
He gave me a wry smile which I returned, and I stepped in—then paused as soon as my eyes landed on the second unexpected guest in the room. My mother, Elaine.She was perched on one of the visitor’s chairs on the other side of Hector’s desk, and she flashed me an unsure smile as soon as we locked ey
Layla’s POVThe reaction to my grandfather’s dismembered head was visceral, but no one blamed me. In fact, Hector was silent as he stood holding my hair back while I threw up. He offered no words of comfort because he knew they wouldn’t do much good, and maybe it was the fact that he himself was st
I put out the war cry. •When my mother, Hector, Ella and Xavier finally arrived at the clearing we had agreed to gather at, the whole place teemed with the bodies of all ages, from much older wolves to cub’s years away from their first change.The air was restless, but as soon as their presence r
Layla’s POV“Shhh!” a familiar voice hissed inside my bedroom, and outside the room my fingers froze over the doorknob, not moving. “Someone’s going to hear us.”It sounded like my half sister Lu, and a sick pit opened up at the bottom of my stomach as soon as I heard my fiancé Alex reply her“And w
Layla’s POVI took a step back before I could stop myself as he approached, but the sound of Lu chuckling stopped Alex and he her, his face contracting in rage.“You bit—” he started, but before he could say another word to Lu, my father grabbed him by his collar, pulling him in close enough that th
Layla’s POVAt the question, my breath hitched in my chest and I felt a shiver run down my spine as his powerful voice washed over me. With tears streaming down my face I turned slowly to find Alpha Hector taking in the scene before him with a look of displeasure. His lips were pressed into a white