I paced my room, hands clenched, trying to focus on anything but Kael’s shadow behind my eyes.

He was impossible to forget.

Not because of some mate bond humming beneath my skin, I still felt nothing there, but because of the way he looked at me. The way his presence tugged at something deeper, something unfamiliar.

My mind screamed caution.

He was a rogue.

A stranger.

Someone connected to the dangerous Malgros and the looming threat against my family and pack.

But my heart? It was chaotic.

It thudded faster when I remembered how close he’d been just moments ago, how warm his breath had sounded when he’d said my...