Ellie POV
I had thought I was prepared for this.
I had imagined Nolan being present, attentive, perhaps even affectionate in a careful, measured way. I had expected him to be protective, serious, focused on logistics and security and the weight of everything waiting outside the packhouse walls.
I had not expected him to be… this.
Maybe I should have. From the first moment he met the twins, he’d been gentle and affectionate with them. It was a side of him I had never seen before that moment.
It was hard for me to understand Nolan’s behavior sometimes, and I had to wonder how much of that came down to his wolf. In many ways, he was a man of instinct. His connection to his wolf was one of the strongest I’d ever seen and he rarely hesitated to act on his instincts.
I don’t have a wolf,
