~HUNTER~ Anxiety was not a usual emotion for me, at least not in the last five years. After the death of my mate I'd grown cold and emotionless. It was what I had to do in order to survive heartbreak. This was also something I'd mastered in the past couple of years. It took time, I had to do things I'd never thought I would have ever done in this lifetime, unforgivable deeds that still haunted me. But eventually I'd become the man I needed to be to go through life without constantly feeling bitterness and pain. But for some reason, Isabella Cross had the ability to make all of the walls I'd built around myself feel like absolutely nothing. The girl had it in her to poke at all of my buttons and make me want to feel again. Images of my dead mate flashed before my mind like a curse that

