EIGHT

He was surrounded by pheromones, which gave him a head rush.

Grayson tried hard to keep his beast under control, but it was hard. He now deeply understood the pain Kyle had been through before Randi was Changed. How hard it had been for him to struggle to get the self-control that had been so easy to get for so long.

So early on, the Redwoods were taught when and how to hold back the beast that lived inside them and when and how to let him go. Before they were allowed to interact with regular people, they had already learned how to control people very well.

He had his first taste of this craziness earlier that day, when he was on the plane with Randi and she was trying to break the link between herself and Kyle. But that wasn't anything compared to how he felt right now.

Grayson had a hard time understanding that his mate was scared and there was nothing he could do about it, but also that she was scared of him. He just couldn't understand why she was afraid of him. that she didn't kn