HE WANTED TO RUN HOME, and now not simply because he wanted to see that Aalyan was okay. He’d have given anything to be allowed to hold someone in his arms right then. Omegas were expected to be at an alpha’s disposal, but Ghian wasn’t going to be that kind of alpha. He’d ask, and he’d make sure he was giving his mate as many choices as he possibly could. And right now, he wouldn’t ask Aalyan at all. After all, Ghian still had his pack and if his mother wasn’t completely present, then his siblings were there for him. In his mind, he’d settled on Erea, but it was Telez he sniffed out when he walked down the path of trees where most of his people spent their nights and the hottest hours of the day. He whistled, a long sound followed by three short ones his older brother had taught him whe

