Calista I stood frozen in the middle of my living room, my bare feet cold against the wooden floor as I stared at the door. "He's not leaving," Lyra said. "You know how he is. Stubborn as a mule." "I know," I replied, taking a shaky step toward the door. I had very few options and all of them ended in disaster. I could try and slip out through the back door, but Aerion and I were evenly matched in speed. He would catch me in moments, and the chase would only intensify my heat. Shifting into another form and escaping . Well, that was a disaster waiting to happen. My body would change back to my normal wolf form under the strain of the heat, and being exposed in any way outside the walls of my house was the worst possible scenario. The stories of what happened to omegas caught out

