For the first time in a long time, I’m nervous. My movements are jerky as I lead her outside and the butterflies in my stomach are violent to my insides. I feel worse than I did the first time I ever shifted—a nerve-wracking event for any shifter.
Witnessing Carina amongst the pack, working alongside them tells me what everyone’s been noticing. She’s a queen among them—an alpha—and she’ll break more than just my heart when we leave.
Months of worrying how a witch would be regarded by the pack went out the window today. Between her healing Dylan and working with them on prep, they’ve accepted her.
My mouth tingles with the urge to kiss her senseless, but if I kiss her, I may be unable to say what I’ve dragged her outside to tell her.
The words are knives inside my mouth, but still, I fo
