Clara Isla had walked with her all the way back to their tent, even though Clara had brushed Isla’s concerns off. “I’m not mad or even particularly upset, Isla, we’ve seen much worse happen to wolves. And my own mate falling in love with another prior to meeting me. That actually happens a lot in our world. It’s like 30% of the time,” she told her, and it was true. She was just hoping that Alpha understood that she would not be accepting him if he scented her out and then abandoned Carisma and his pup for his Goddess-Gifted. That would see him as not being worthy of her in her eyes. It would make him no different in reality to Isla’s own Mate, who ditched his chosen for a Goddess-Gifted regardless that they had a pup together. “I’m just allowing William to come to terms with knowing I’m

