Again Alpha Zane's POV

Kensley and I moved closer to the pack house.

Ariel had promised to sit with Clarita on the back balcony, where I could easily see them from the woods. Claw tries to take over from me again, but I push him back into the background.

He is unreliable at the moment, he might run off to Clarita anyway. He yearns for her.

'When she was with us, I often asked you if she was ours, our mate. You never gave a specific answer, you always waved me off. And look at you now, like a whipped puppy, insisting on being with her. You are the stupidest...