AURORA POV
My heart could have burst right out of my chest watching Stan with Sammy. Seeing him holding his sister again, crushing her into his chest like she was the last breath of air he’d ever take—it was too much. Too beautiful. Too raw.
And Goddess, it made me fall for him all over again. Harder. Deeper. Like every time I thought I had reached the bottom of this abyss called love, he went and proved there was still further to fall.
Stan loves with his whole damn heart. No armor. No walls. He doesn’t hide behind postures or games like so many alphas I’ve met in my life. I’d grown up around men who cloaked their feelings behind cold glares and sharper words, who thought dominance meant silence, distance, cruelty. But Stan? With the people he loves, he is an open book. And right now e
