glances.
“Alpha Leo, this is your home. Your mother ordered us not to let you leave until the ceremony is complete.”
“Get out of my way!”
“Leo!” Jasmin hurried after him, and her desperation turned to hysteria. “What are you doing? Are you not going to complete the Marking Ceremony with me anymore?”
“No!” Leo wiped his face and suddenly became determined.
With a furious roar, his muscles expanded, shredding his perfectly tailored suit. A massive, ferocious gray wolf emerged in his
place. With one powerful leap, he knocked the guards aside and broke through the wooden gate.
The cold night air howled past his ears as he ran, and suddenly, he remembered the night we ran away together.
It had been a bitterly cold winter. Snowflakes clung to my lashes, and my nose and eyes were red from the freezing wind. Still, I reached up and pressed my warm palms against his frostbitten ears.
His heart skipped a beat. That was the moment he had asked me if I wanted to leave Windmere with him.
Tears blurred my vision as I nodded furiously, letting him pull me into his burning embrace.
One year later, on that very same day, Cayden was born.
Today was the anniversary of the day we fell in love and left together.
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Leo’s chest tightened. He tried to reassure himself, “She wouldn’t leave. Mia loves me too much to leave.
“Where would she even go? She wouldn’t take Cayden and become a rogue.
“She’s just mad. I’ll go home, mollify her a little, and everything will be fine.”
He muttered to himself, but his strides only grew faster and more frantic.
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It wasn’t until he reached the house and saw the warm glow of lights in the windows and the smoke curling from the chimney
that he finally breathed again.
Shifting back into his human form, he schooled his face into cold indifference.
As he smoothed down his wind–tousled hair, he grumbled to himself, “Mia went too far this time. No matter how angry she is,
she shouldn’t use leaving as a threat.
“Before I mollify her, I need to teach her a lesson so that she will not just throw around threats like that.”
With that thought, he kicked open the door with an icy expression, waiting for me to throw myself into his arms as I always did.
But the moment the door swung open, the people inside turned to stare at him in shock.
“Alpha Leo! What are you doing here?”
He froze as he looked at the unfamiliar family sitting inside his home.
His chest tightened. “Who are you? Where are the mother and son who lived here?”
The werewolves inside hesitated before answering.
“They left,” one of them finally said. “Luna Jasmin told us they were just rogues, and nothing in this pack ever belonged to them.
So, we moved in after they left.”
He felt his blood run cold. His legs buckled beneath him, and he collapsed onto the floor.
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