_Anya's POV_
A soft knock woke me before sunrise.
For a few seconds, I stayed under the blanket, confused and heavy with sleep. The room was still dark. Then the knock came again.
“Anya,” Alpha Jacob’s voice said through the door. “Get up.”
My heart gave a strange jump inside my chest.
It was too early for anyone to be knocking on my door. For one foolish second, I thought I was still in Silvercrest and that Talia or one of the maids had come to drag me out for work before dawn. The fear rose fast out of old habit but it faded just as quickly when I heard his voice again.
“Do not make me come in there and pull the blankets off you.”
Maya stirred inside me at once.
She sounded amused. He would enjoy that too much.
Heat rushed to my face. I pushed the blanket aside, got out of bed a
