NICKOLAI'S POV "How are you feeling?" Blue asked as I stared at the reflection in the mirror. At first, when he asked a small number of questions, I felt sick to the pit of my stomach, uncertain of what to do. My head spun around for a whole lot of reasons. I felt like a new man, a grown man. When he had spoken of me learning some things, I only believed it was a mere punishment, but it had been required as a tradition by all Alphas to go through the continent for fourteen days without visitors. It's been so many weeks since I saw freya In four weeks, I had cast my way against anyone and everyone "I feel... good," I responded, ruffling my hands in my hair. My father was dead. I took it in faith. I had a family and pack to protect. It was time I became a man, flinching for

