Erik POV
I hadn’t been able to follow Gavin after her outburst. I wanted to, but I knew I couldn’t. Not without doing something I would regret. Gavin’s display just placed a giant target on Trisha’s back. He may as well have declared Trisha was his mate. Everyone could smell Trisha’s arousal, and with Gavin’s history, only one thing would’ve brought forth his wolf so forcefully and made him so possessive. And those of us old enough to know that, knew exactly what Trisha was to him.
He basically claimed her, and his pack had already grown suspicious. It would only be a matter of hours, days if we were lucky, before word spread and beings would try to confirm it. What’s worse, Gavin’s aura triggered my bloodlust because I had to fight it off. I needed to feed. And that meant I needed to b
