UNLIKE ME, SEBASTIEN didn’t look like he’d been running for thirty hours without stopping. Maybe my mate had managed to sleep for a while within his cell. Or maybe he simply possessed a deeper reserve of energy than the one I’d exhausted within my own body. Whatever the reason, the Alphas’ Pinnacle was still a long drive away when my eyelids began to sag and my wolf began nudging at the inside of my skin. Let me out, she murmured.
A couple of hours earlier, the beast had been too tired to push her way into existence even with permission. But now that Sebastien’s proximity and Wolfie’s approval had shored up my sagging self-respect, the beast scratched at my bones, driving them out of alignment and threatening to emerge right there in the front seat of Malachi’s SUV.
Now is not the time,
