AVERY
My heart felt too full, too tight in my chest. I didn’t know if it was from fear, relief, or something dangerously close to love—but it was there. Loud and impossible to ignore.
There were claw marks on his skin, blood on his shirt, but he was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. All of them were. My heart broke, looking at him like that, but he was alright, he was fine. Nothing had happened to him, nothing would.
"Then we’ll figure it out. All of us. Together," Shade said, his voice comforting. There was no anger in him, only tenderness. If anyone had told me that Shade was this kind, comfortable wolf... I would have laughed a few days ago. But now looking at him... My heart churned.
It was such a strange thing to hear, but there it was, and when he said it, it didn't feel
