YELENA
I should’ve known this would happen.
The moment I received that card, I should have known. I should have known it would spiral into this mess, that it wouldn’t just ruin my reputation but drag Jackson’s down with me. My teeth bit into my lower lip as I thought about it.
I had wanted to get close to him, to be friends while we worked together. I had wanted to be normal, just to be around my ex-mate, a wolf who could scare the life out of anyone with a single glare. But now look at us. Look where I had dragged him.
I smiled bitterly at him, at how he had tried to prove me wrong. Who would have thought we’d end up this close, only to be thrown into a deadly situation neither of us had asked for? Not as friends. Not as colleagues. Not as anything.
“You're not going to suspend any
