The Wolf Her mating bond felt like a warm sun over my skin. Leukos had been angry only once since we bonded and the feeling had been crushing, like a cold spear cutting me sharp and deep over my ribs. Exactly where she had bitten me. After that, the mating bond had restored to a constant warm presence at my side. Even then surrounded by stinky Alphas and trying to ignore Talon’s constant nagging I could feel her, happy and content, missing me, needing me. And by the Gods I wanted her. All the f*****g time. I never knew how much I could miss someone. How much I could grow to need a tiny young woman that was still a child in so many ways. And still she was so f*****g smart, so incredibly perceptive and cunning. With the right incentive she could become an excellent strategist, if

