'With Alpha Thorne right now. Ttyl! Xoxo'
The text message Kristine had sent me just hours ago flashed behind my eyelids in brilliant, blinding neon. My tiny feline brain practically short-circuited under the suffocating weight of canvas.
If she was with him... then why the hell was he standing on a dusty access road miles away from the campus roads?!
Unless she had lied. Or worse, unless she had been with him earlier, wrapped up in whatever high-society intimacy they shared, before he casually stepped out to patrol the dirty borders of Bluedale. The ugly green monster in my chest reared its head, sinking its venomous fangs deep into my ribs.
Outside, completely oblivious to the sheer danger I was in, Frayer cleared his throat and offered a polite, crisp salute. "Alpha Thorne. It’s an
