- Knox ~

"Only Josephina's true mate can protect her." The words of Alpha Hector still ring in my ears. They were repeating like a drum designed to shake me to the core. And they haven't failed.

She doesn't have a wolf....the daughter of the two most highly influential, powerful alphas..doesn't have a wolf.

How was that even possible.

I've seen both Jaxon and Jace in their wolf forms, so how can Red have been denied by the moon goddess... How can she have been missed? Has the Moon Goddess not even seen her, she's impossible to miss. Any hope of getting sleep last night disappeared as soon as he told me. I couldn't leave his office, I needed to know more and by the time it came for

training...sleep was the last thing on my mind.

Even as she stood at the bottom of the stairs, her legs bruised and grazed as she tried to hide the

pain...it killed me to think of what could have happened.

How lucky she had been to escape the motorbike crash alive.

How I had unknowingly put her in a life-threatening situation.

I knew there was something, something they were hiding...but I never imagined for one moment it would be that. How could it be...she has a scent, an allure about her...I can feel that pull to her that is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid.

But if she hasn't got a wolf, she hasn't got a mate.

Hector had confided in me, more than he has with his own sons.

Kaia's father had declared her twin, Alora, a still-born and lied about her existence. Even lied to Kaia, claiming her own mother had died in childbirth,

when in fact he had killed her with his own bare hands and covered it up.

When Kaia was almost of age, almost old enough to take on the pack herself as the rightful heir...the pack challenged him...called him out on his lies. He killed them, killed them all.

Hector wasn't lacking in the details of finding the forgotten skeletons himself when Kaia and he

explored the Clear Waters pack together. A pack now back to its former glory of being run by the White Wolf, but managed by her twin sister.

A momentous historical tale, kept a secret.

My head was spinning, training being the perfect outlet for the frustration building up inside of me. A part of me wanted to close the distance between us as she stood at the bottom of the stairs, for my hands to grip onto her waist and pull her into me.

Wa she cold...she had a fluffy jumper on...without her wolf, does she feel the cold more. Become tired...it's all making so much sense now. How her parents didn't want her working past lunch time at the hospital having been up all night by my bed side. How Jaxon refuses to let her train with the warriors now and even wants to abolish the use of weapons as defence.

My mind flickers back to her at the bottom of the stairs. I hadn't visited her all day, yet she remained up all night with me when Jaxon's wolf attacked me and what did I do? I turned my back on her...

Fuck.

This is more than I signed up for. I was here to observe and report back. Check their defences, check their training...not start a secret affair with the alpha's daughter and get in over my head. Except for the pack and their inner circle, I was the only other to now know.novelbin

Does that mean he trusts me, even though I returned her covered in blood. He worries for her safety yet sends her out with silver bullets...to me it just doesn't make sense. I've seen the true horror silver bullets can cause, I've seen a pack destroyed in a matter of minutes by the metallic heartless dart.

Training was over before I felt it had even started. I needed more, I needed a few rounds in the boxing ring to exorcise this growing feel of dread within

me. That was clawing at my throat at the very thought of her. No wolf, she had no wolf yet acted like she was indestructible.