Finlay How was I supposed to help Amie through her first shift when no one had told her what to expect? I didn’t know if we had time to explain it all. I felt my anger rise at how unfair it was to her. Hadn’t she suffered enough? When she told me the real reason why she had left her old pack, it almost broke my heart. I had known her for a couple of days and I already knew she was an amazing wolf. How someone who grew up with her couldn’t see it, I didn’t know. Her story had also pained me in a whole other way, a way that wasn’t the least logical. She had found her mate, it meant she wasn’t my mate. Which I knew. If she had been, I would have known as soon as I saw her in the diner. But somehow, a small part held out hope. Maybe because she didn’t have her wolf, it hadn’t clicked into pla

