Present
Trey
I dream about Sheridan all night, but they’re not the wet dreams of my youth. They’re f*****g angsty and painful. She’s flipping me on my back and kicking my ribs over and over again, sobbing. She’s getting captured and hauled off by the nest of vampires, and there’s nothing I can do to keep her safe. Her dad catches me in bed with her and tortures my mom to punish me.
I wake with my psyche bruised and battered. The need to take care of Sheridan—to fix things once and for all consumes me. But what good will it do? Yeah, I purposely drove us apart because I wanted the best for her. It might help her to know that. To know I never stopped loving her.
Hell, I’ve never even been with another girl since her. My wolf wouldn’t accept it. He wanted Sheridan from the first day he sa
