Ryder
She stood listening to Owen read out that scroll of all Paulina had done. It all started even before Owen was born. She looked at Paulina at one point and couldn’t understand her obsession with being the Alpha’s Mate. All wolfen folk understood that if you didn’t scent out the one you liked, or fell in love with. That they weren’t your Goddess-Gifted Mate.
And you knew that there was going to come a day when you or your lover actually scented out their Fated Mate, and walked away from each other. That was just the way of their world.
That was all Quade had done. He was the heir to the pack and his own father had called it puppy love, which at that age it certainly was for their Kind. 99% of their world did not scent out their high school sweetheart as a Fated Mate and they moved o
