•| SAPPHIRE Kaiden had arrived the second I texted him that I was burying Aunt Hannah today. His presence seemed to calm the storm that was raging inside me. For days, I’d believed she was actually gone, far away to a place where I might never see her again. But knowing that she was going down six feet today, I couldn’t help the fresh wave of pain that surged through me. It was suffocating, drowning, like it was pulling me down into its depths, until Kaiden showed up and the alarms going off in my head calmed down. Ironic, isn’t it? This was someone people were afraid of. I have no idea the things he had done to be so feared by people, but I knew he was cold, ruthless even. But the same cold and heartless man feared by the pack is the same man I feel calm with. Safe even. And I never f

