--Lorenzo---
The night bled slowly into dawn, and I didn’t sleep.
Not because I couldn’t. Because I didn’t want to.
Her voice still rang in my ears, sharp as broken glass. I won’t kneel for you. Not for you.
Most wolves would have taken that as a challenge, a reason to force her submission and end the game here and now. The wolf inside me still snarled for it, pacing, restless, demanding. My claws ached with the urge to mark her, my teeth ached with the need to claim.
But the man in me—Alpha, leader, strategist—knew better.
Sindy wasn’t like other omegas. She wasn’t soft or timid or desperate to belong. She had been trained to fight her own nature, sharpened into a weapon by the very people who now discarded her. She didn’t know what it meant to be cared for. Protected. Desired for s
