***
I pace the room, anxiety eating at my insides. We had just arrived at Alec’s house a few minutes ago. It’s a large six-bedroom mansion set on acres of land among the rich and affluent. If I wasn’t so worried, I would have appreciated how good the house looked.
It was a bit cold, but maybe because there was nothing of personal value in it. It was just a house, not a home.
“This is where I escape too when I need to be alone and away from the pack,” he said when I asked him why his house was on the opposite side of the pack.
If I were me from before, I would have been jumping at the idea of turning this house into a home. Just the idea of bringing warmth to it would have made me all giddy. I wasn’t that girl though... and right now I can’t even imagine a life with Alec as my mate, let
