"Laurel. Baby." Another growl from the alpha that I ignore now, wanting to get through to my angel. I move my hand to cup her face and turn it towards me and call to her physically and through our bond "Meus Amor" and I feel the block fall away and her eyes dart up at me as they fill with recognition and she lunges out of her seat and into my arms in my lap, as though she didn't even realize I was here the whole time. Her shoulders begin to shake as she sobs in my arms her face hard against my chest, saying muffled apologies. And I look up to see the wolf standing in front of me with icy blue eyes glaring down at me, I didn't even see him move and here he was in front of me. "Orion! Cole! Please be seated, by law of all species, you cannot challenge Sebastian for what is rightfully his. Laurel and Sebastian are fated." Fiona carefully spoke, but there was doubt, maybe a trace of a challenge, towards the alpha to defy her request. I watched Orion or Cole as the words Fiona said sink in and I saw, almost felt, the heartbreak that washed over his face as he fell into Laurel's vacant seat.

She never thought she'd hold so much power. After all, she was just a girl from an orphanage and who left having been un-adopted, now she's in college and trying to make a better life for herself, whatever that may be. Who would have thought that a random meeting would have her all over the news and changing her whole world as she knew it. Who was that guy? And how did he just disappear after turning her life upside down, just as she was starting to get it going. Will she ever see him again? Will her life ever get back to normal and worse will she ever finally get to go on her very first date?