Lena’s POV
The shifters advanced with military precision, encircling me as their noose drew tight. But it was the form that materialized from the darkest of shadows that turned my blood cold.
Ash.
Not the Omega step-brother I grew up with, but something even more frightening. His True Alpha self pulsated with power that caused the very air around him to ripple, his silver eyes backlit by incendiary lust rather than love.
“Hello, Lena,” he said, in a voice dripping with harmonics that would have had many wolves on their knees before him. "I've missed you."
"Don't come close," I warned, a storm cloud descending across my hand that was pressing against the curve of my belly. "I won't go with you, Ash. Not now, not ever."
“You say that now,” he said with maddening surety. "But once you r
