ROWAN I was planning on releasing Sol anyway. I could tell he wasn’t a threat to the pack after hearing his explanation. I would have let him walk free with nothing more than a scar of warning to remind him what territory he was trespassing on. However, fate had a cruel humor, because it seemed this came with a bonus. Tessa was standing in front of me now, glaring at me with fire. She’d revealed herself for Sol, the boy she’d come to protect, but in doing so, she’d given me exactly what I hadn’t stopped wanting since the moment she left me behind. I’d let her run away twice. That was already two times too many. Now, I wasn’t going to let her run away again. Of course, I wasn’t going to bind her through force. Tessa was much more than that. She was a storm I wanted willingly ragi

