Chapter 25

Leon POV

Warmth covered me, and I knew I was in bed. The heavy weight of the duvet covered me, and Thane’s scent enveloped me when I woke, so I knew we were in his room. We all have our own rooms, yet mostly we tended to sleep in here, not enjoying being apart unless Thane was in one of his moods.

My head was pounding to its own beat as I groaned, sitting up. I rubbed my eyes and yawned sleepily, trying to remember how |

got here. The last thing I remember is receiving a scolding from Thane in the living room and the gate alarm sounding. As I yawn, my eyes squint at the lamp that was on beside the bed and my jaw, which felt like it was dislocated.

“You’re fine. Lay back down,” Thane says, and I blink, peering over at him. His aura was potent, and I could tell instantly he was in a bad mood, which meant I was in for yet another scolding when flashbacks of his fist swinging at my face returned. Why was outside?

Thane pats his chest, and I roll my eyes at him. “One!” he counted, and my face was sore enough. I also didn’t want my ass beat, so I quickly laid back down.

“What are you reading?” I ask while stretching out and tugging the blanket up. He doesn’t answer but sets the book down.

“Do you remember what happened?” he asks, sitting up and adjusting the pillow behind him. I licked my lips, that were overly dry when the taste of blood reminded me I fed on Z.

Z!! That was not Z, yet there was no doubt in my mind, it— Could Zara be Z? That startling clarity smashed me harder than Thane’s fist did. Everything flooding back to me. She was here. So, where was she now? I fed on her; that is why Thane attacked me.

rehab,” Thanes says, and I sit up, ripped from my pondering thoughts and smashed heavily into reality by his words.

back there. I wasn’t leaving my mates. I couldn’t go through with that again. I hated being

Zara, Leon. A member of staff. I had to

will behave. I will be more careful, |- | slipped up;

You have become too much of a risk,” Rhen says, and my head turns to find him sitting by the fireplace in

I couldn’t smell his scent as strongly, so it was clear he wasn’t home. Thane growls, and I know Raidon would stick up for me. “He isn’t Alpha. What I say goes, you are going,

I growl, and Thane’s returning growl was thunderous, and his attack was faster than I could track. Thane’s hand wrapped around my throat, and before I could even register the change in positions, I found myself pinned to the bed beneath him. His towering, muscular body

“Thane!” Rhen panics.

tonight. He needs to learn,” Thane growls, and tears prick my eyes as I shake my head. His grip wasn’t tight enough to cut off my air but more a show of how easily he

Thane’s eyes soften. He knows how much that place destroyed me, how much it almost destroyed our

help you,” he breathes, and I could feel it was killing him as much

will control it, please, Thane,” I begged him, and

he was about to speak. He may be big and grizzly on the outside, but I know he hated the thought of me leaving just as much as I didn’t want

I hear Rhen chuckle behind us before feeling the bed dip as he climbs on

to a purr as my

Chapter 25

may be blood-crazed, yet I knew how much Thane loved when I fed on him. He loved the high of the bite

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