Charles
I study her face, wide eyes searching mine like she is trying to peel me open layer by layer. She looks for lies, for cracks, for anything that tells her I am hiding something. Goddess help me, she looks unbearably adorable doing it.
My wolf stirs beneath my skin, restless again.
Earlier, when I returned to the cabin and found her in the kitchen, it wasn’t just jealousy that hit me. It was instinct. The scent in the air was wrong. Sharp. Dominant. Not just any wolf.
An alpha.
The realization had nearly sent me over the edge.
While Molly was in the shower, I went outside. I checked on the cabin...the one with the new neighbor. But of course, when I knocked, there was no response. One of the other neighbors told me a new man had moved in. Recently, actually. But he’d left arou
