Alpha Bladen POV
A sharp sting rang across my head, forcing me awake.
I groaned softly, pressing my palm against my temple as the ache pulsed like a war drum inside my skull. It wasn’t new, it never was, nights had become battles of their own, ones I never seemed to win. I stared up at the ceiling of my chambers, breathing slowly until the spinning eased just enough for me to sit up.
The dreams still clung to me, blood, snow, screams swallowed by the wind... and her.
My jaw tightened as I swung my legs over the side of the bed.
"Mia Heather." Most people didn't know this but Fenris gave Mia her mother's last name after her passing, it was meant to be one last thing she'd have to hold onto her mother, a name she had shared with me under the moonlight, a name very few people knew of and
