Allegra
The leaves had been through their fiery Autumn show and were crunching under my feet as I walked through the garden. The steel gray sky overhead promised the season's first flutters of snow before long, and I shivered as I hugged my sweater closer around me. The cold wasn’t the only thing making me shiver. It was only a little over a month before my birthday and my Alpha ceremony. Which was why I was looking for Conall. I'd put off talking about this with him for too long, and now that I felt like we were running out of time, I needed him to make me a promise I knew he would hate. I only hoped he would understand the necessity of what I was asking for.
I'd looked for him in the pool house first. We were still working on getting an elevator installed in the main house, but it was
