Zion's Pov

I was furious when Gazzy begged me to reject her. How dare she? The bond was sacred, and she treated it like trash. My wolf raged inside, seeing her words as an insult, a threat. “She’s mine,” I growled to myself, storming through the woods after training. She ran off crying, but I wasn’t letting this go.

I needed advice. I went to my friends, Jax and Milo, at the pack house. When I burst through the door, they were in the middle of eating some leftovers from dinner, laughing about something dumb one of the younger pack members had done during drills.

Jax looked up first, his...