“Monsters don’t always bare their teeth. Sometimes they smile.”
The stranger’s eyes didn’t blink.
They seemed to drink in every breath I took, every twitch of my hands on the bedsheets.
Outside, the sounds of violence tore through the pack grounds — snarls, the crack of bone, the thud of bodies slamming against walls. My gut told me Kade and Ronan had finally stopped circling each other and started trying to tear each other apart.
Which meant no one was coming through that door.
The man tilted his head. “You smell… complicated. Alpha. Omega. Something more.” He stepped forward, his boots silent on the floorboards. “I could take that power for myself.”
My wolf pushed to the surface, teeth bared. “You can try.”
He smiled wider, the silver scars along his jaw catching the light. “I lik
