Kas’s POV

 

Coffee and dark chocolate. Mochaccino. | smell it before | open my eyes. Bronx. My mate. He came home. He asked me not to leave. | have a pounding headache from crying but | feel myself being calmed by his scent. | clutch his shirt tight and pull it closer to my nose breathing in deeply. | feel his hand gently rubbing my back.

 

"You awake, Baby?" | hear his rough voice from outside the cocoon he has me wrapped in. |nod my head and he opens up his large arms, so he can look at me.

 

"You ready to talk?" He asks gently, as he brushes my bangs out of my eyes.

 

"| don't know," | tell him honestly, "| don't want to cry anymore."

 

Bronx sighs deeply and shakes his head like he's not sure what to say. He rubs his hands on his face before he continues, "Kas, I-I have some confessions to make and I'm sure you're going to be mad but | need to tell you."

 

“Confessions?” | squeak out.

 

“Oh my Goddess, is he seriously about to say he has been cheating on us?!” Lex starts to growl, “How did we not smell another she wolf on him?!”

 

| feel myself stiffen at Lex's revelation, bracing myself for whatever Bronx is about to Say.

 

his eye up from the ground to look at me. "What?" No, like seriously, what the fuck? | think | would have

 

answer my question. His eye darts around, avoiding my glare, as he gulps hard

 

the pack members to exclude you from helping around the packhouse," his voice cracks and he clears his throat, "except for

 

slowly stand at the admission. He did this on purpose. He hurt

away from Bronx as he desperately tries to hold on to me. Lex is seconds away from taking over and I'm not going to stop her if she

 

| can explain. I-"

 

| shriek. Lex has had enough. She grabs me and roughly yanks me to

 

DARE YOU HURT MY KAS!" The windows rattle and

 

small and very afraid. We shifted without me

 

you hurt Saint too! Please don't hurt our mate!" | plead with her, trying to pull on her consciousness, “just leave. Please,

 

Lex, nearly feral, towering over Bronx. Lex doesn't answer me, she just howls and charges full speed out the bay window. Breaking it into a million pieces as she crashes through. She lands easily from the third story, running without a break in her stride, straight into the woods. | can hear the thundering paws of Saint behind us, along with at least two or three others, presumably James and Marco right

 

wolf form because Lex's fur is the only thing keeping us warm. She is deep into the

 

going to be subzero temperatures soon. Your paws will get frostbite," | tried to reason with

 

River in the distance, off to the right. Other than that, no familiar sights or scents can

 

been here in a long time. There's a small bed in the corner, covered in quilts and sheepskins. She stands in front of the bed and finally lets us shift back into my human form. Which is great and all, but it is negative degrees outside and I’m

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