If there was anything Dallan hated, it was pack gatherings. He would have to face all the insufferable council of elders and the over-demanding pack members. The fact that the main theme of the celebration was to see the mermaid was a fact that he was well aware of. He had no idea why the pack wanted a mermaid so badly. He had been the one crazy for one. Initially.

Now, he could hardly lay in peace. It felt like he did a very wrong thing by kidnapping Hazel. She wasn't the first person to be taken by him in such a manner, so it came as a surprise why...