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While I struggle to come up with something else to say to him outside of me foolishly stuttering, he continues to wait patiently.

It paints an odd picture—me, a newcomer taken from my homelands and planted right in the middle of a situation I have no idea how to handle while still remaining true to myself. And him, an alpha, giving me a strange amount of leeway while holding all of the cards.

Why?

What motive does he have in not demanding me to come upstairs and right to his bedroom? Sure, we still have the pregnancy to figure out, but that doesn’t mean he can’t sample the goods first. Take me for a test drive, as Daniel had so eloquently put it while dragging me out of my cage.

Is the patience a part of the test? To see if I’m going to be difficult and give him a hard time, or to see if I’m complacent and won’t question him on whatever he asks of me?

Daniel had been full of tests. Aiden had been too trusting.

Where does Nyx fall on that spectrum?

“Am…I allowed to stay out here?” My throat is tight as I speak, fear almost forcing me to remain silent. But I have to know—Ineedto know what I’m in for—and this will be my first look through the spyglass.

He blinks slowly and then a large, amused smile stretches across his face. He doesn’t answer right away, simply glances over my head at his pack’s town. “If you aren’t in the mood to get stared at, then I suggest coming inside. My pack tends to be rather…curious.”

Curious? Or suspicious?

I’m surprised he’s giving me a warning at all.

Not wanting to test his good mood, I slowly ascend the stairs and follow him into the mansion.

29

Aiden

The day Constance and Camden head out for their journey, a sudden feeling of dread settles in the pit of my stomach.

I’m not one to believe in superstition, nor am I the kind of alpha who needs complete control over a situation such as sending my two closest confidants away on a reconnaissance mission. I trust them, more than I trust most in this pack.

Yet, the moment they disappear into the dark thicket of the forest surrounding our town, I’m left with that sinking feeling that refuses to go away no matter how much work I drown myself in.

I want to believe that this is a symptom of them being away from me so soon after the Raine incident. Not even Camden knows what exactly happened, just that I met a female during the ball,had a brief affair, and then found out she’d been trying to baby-trap me.

Only Raine and I know of our fated connection and truthfully, I’d like to keep it that way, even if the thought of never seeing her again still haunts me.

But what am I to do with a mate like her? Even if I were to go to her packlands and bring her back here, how could I ever trust her again?

Her alpha had been clear when he’d come to visit and handed me the letter and the pregnancy test, telling me how he’d found out her plans and had immediately come to tell me the truth—or rather, show it to me.

I didn’t want to believe it, even as I’d read the letter. I still don’t. The words replay in my head so often that I can recite them with perfect clarity.

I’d shoved both the letter and the test back into their package and stuffed it in one of the locked drawers in my office. I couldn’t bear to look at it anymore, but I didn’t have it in me to burn it either.

That letter and test, as devastating as it’d been to receive them, are the only two pieces of Raine that I have left to prove what we had together was real—that I hadn’t simply dreamt of her and ended it all in a nightmare.

A frantic knock at my office door has me turning around right as the door whips open.

Just as I’m about to reprimand him for entering without me telling him to, he says, “Sorry, sir. There’s uh…I think you better come see.”

My brows rise. “See what?”

He, Darius, swallows visibly. “There’s a situation going on at the border: a female trying to get in. She says she knows you.”

My heart thunders in my chest.

Raine?

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