Natalia Throughout yesterday, I tried my hardest not to think about what I'd let happen. But now in the aftermath of it, alone, the silence is suffocating, as it wraps its way around my throat and stuffs into my ears, allowing room for my thoughts to grow wild and uninterrupted. I tell myself it was absolutely necessary. His wolf had been going out of control, and other people had begun to feel the brunt of it. With him, everything had been familiar, the feelings he evoked from deep within me, the sizzling heat clawing at my insides, consuming me whole in its flames. i look up from the kitchen counter when the front door opens. "Alden," I mutter. He enters into the room looking disheveled. "You didn't come back last night, where were you?" I ask. "I had some things to do, di

