-Willow- I waited three days more, Cain and I were not really speaking to each other. He was busy working on getting the territory safe, and more pack members were joining us slowly. He even came to bed very late, but after I tried sleeping in a different room again and he carried me back, I knew it was pointless, so I had accepted my fate. Yet every night I built a pillow wall between us, making sure there was distance. Cain was angry the first time he saw it, but he preferred the wall over me trying to go to sleep somewhere else, so he didn’t break it down. But I still needed answers. I had asked one of the servants to purchase me a test. Everyone knew Cain and I had slept together anyway, and so it was no surprise I would need one. She had gotten me multiple boxes, knowing I would need them, yet the wait was agonizing. I kept walking back and forth in the bathroom, waiting for that damn timer to go off. My wolf was pacing inside me too, but while I hoped for it to be negative, I kn

-Willow-I woke up feeling myself pressed into a warm and powerful body. Never had I felt such contentment or peace. It was truly an incredible feeling, and I snuggled closer to it, my nose burying itself against something smooth. When I inhaled a sharp scent of something fantastic, I opened my eyes to find the source of it and was shocked to see myself plastered against Cain, my nose buried in his neck as I almost lay on top of him. I quickly sat up, glaring at him. I slapped his chest, though my strength was nothing against him, and he didn’t wake up from it.“Cain!” I called.He murmured something, then his arms around me tightened, and I noticed one of his hands was resting on my ass. It squeezed me into his sleep. I groaned, annoyed, then grabbed his hand, shoving it away. When that happened, he finally opened his blue eyes and focused on me.“You don’t look happy,” he observed."Of course not,” I snarled.He groaned, then pulled me closer, burying his face in the crook of my nec

-Cain- Henry was now living with us, yet when it grew very late, I told him to go eat and rest. It wouldn’t work trying to train me all night anyway, and I could see from how Willow was yawning that we were just going around in circles, and we were all exhausted. While I had improved my speech a bit, it was definitely going to take some practice before it became really good. I was still a bit unsure why I did all of this as I went to sit in front of Willow. However, as I sat down, I noticed the smile on her lips, and just seeing that made the whole training session worth it. “You have never had to charm the women you slept with?” she suddenly asked me. “Henry is right. It wasn’t charm that led them to me. Sometimes I barely had to speak.” Willow shook her head and sighed. “Jealous?” I teased her, making her look annoyed at me. "No, I just thought about how easy things came to you,” she told me. “You’re right. They did come easy, but things are different now.” “I am seeing it a

-Cain- I knew I shouldn’t snoop, but I felt my mate shut off inside my head, and her behavior was so very odd. I needed to know what bothered her, and so I took her computer and opened it. She didn’t even have a password, and I easily logged into a Messenger chat, seeing Eva had sent my mate an article. I opened it, only to sigh deeply and lean back in my sweat. “What?” Henry asked. “Just my brother using his new-found freedom to… have fun,” I whispered before flipping the computer to Henry, who studied the article where pictures of my brother surrounded by women were. There were some as well where he was alone with them, coming out of restaurants or appearing at parties with them. Carter certainly didn’t seem to be crying many tears over this broken engagement. He had seemed so mad at me, and yet he goes and does this, making my mate very upset because it rendered their time together meaningless. I knew Carter might as well simply drown himself in sex to forget how his brother took

-Willow- “You need to eat,” Cain insisted, pushing the plate of breakfast toward me. I hadn’t left the bed for a whole day, and food had been brought to me, but when Cain came back from the office, seeing I had eaten nothing all day, he was determined the next day to ensure I ate. So, he had taken me to the dining room, with only Henry with us as he urged me to eat. I just pressed my eyes together, turning away. “Willow, don’t make me force this in you,” he sighed. I remained quiet, and Cain groaned, not liking that I wasn’t eating. I noticed him turn to Henry for advice, but he shrugged, sipping his coffee. Cain then turned to me, pulling out my chair. I let him, not having the strength to fight him. He pushed out his own, then grabbed me and pulled me onto his lap. Again, I let him, not fighting at all. He held me close to his warm body, and for the first time, that was all I craved. Just his alpha scent and warm body, and so I buried my nose in the crook of his neck as I held o