Adrianna:
I stood in the kitchen, the cool morning breeze slipping through the open window. The faint golden glow of sunrise spilled across the countertops, highlighting the fresh batch of muffins I had just pulled from the oven. My heart thudded uncomfortably as my mind replayed last night. Ashton had arrived unexpectedly, his dominant presence filling the small farmhouse like a thundercloud. It had been months since I left my pack, determined to find solace in the simplicity of farm life. Yet here he was, my mate—an Alpha I hadn’t asked for—now fast asleep upstairs.
The creak of the wooden floorboards snapped my from my thoughts. I turned to see Sawyer entering the kitchen, his shirt already smudged with dirt from the barn chores he’d started before dawn. His sun-kissed face was unread
