It’s funny how my initial anxiety transforms into disappointment as we reach the first checkpoint midway where the pups can run around while the drivers get a little break after the long drive.

The moment Fynn pulls his hand back to park and get out of the car, I feel like a piece of me has been taken away.

It’s getting worse by the minute.

‘We have to drop the mutts to take on the offer of the Alpha,’ Cassy purrs, and I guess she got the right moment as Drake doesn’t put her in her place as usual.

Or maybe he has begun to distance himself from me.

I...