Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Brooklyn

I hesitate, settling down in my chair across from Aden.

He's all feral wolf, and instead of feeling like the strong she-wolf I am, I feel like a doe waiting to feel his teeth sink into my neck for the kill.

His wolf flares in his eyes as he stares at me, almost as if he could leap across the table at any moment and gobble me up.

Images flash through my mind of my skirt hiked up around my waist while Aden Kenwood buries his face between my thighs, literally gobbling me up...

I give myself a mental shake.

Nope. This is Hudson's father-mafia king, powerful shifter, and bad, bad news.

That's why Hudson has a bodyguard, that's why he has so much money.

I quirk my head to the side, still staring at Kenwood, realizing that this is also why Hudson is hiding his sexuality. Many of the powerful wolf packs and crimes families in Grayling City are notoriously

conservative, and family is everything. A gay son would never be accepted in some packs-especially a son that is expected to provide an heir.

I can't imagine being Hudson...having to hide who I loved, pretending to love someone else.

smiling, just slightly, his eyes moving over me as I stare at him like a

head buried between my legs...there's no way he doesn't smell how

clench my jaw, reminding myself that he is

traitor my wolf and my body are right

my heat

I turn back to my papers,

Brooklyn! I remind myself. You could

and place of birth?" I ask, trying to

Kenwood says slowly, "that you're already aware of

back,

lift my eyes to glare

But, unfortunately, he's right.

Grayling City knows this information. I

him, struck once again by the grim, lethal

jagged edges and rough shards...and some dark part of

me, tapping its fingers

thought and try to focus on what

wolf, Lena, whines at

look

you today will be of a personal and psychological nature," I say, giving the canned speech I'm required to say to all inmates. "The state does require that you

I look up at him, a knee-jerk reaction to

knees, "what gives you the right to ask me anything about my history and my

straight in my chair, unnerved by such a question. "The state has hired me

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