My first-chance mate.
The future Gamma of Wisteria Pack.
The one who had rejected me on my eighteen birthday.
I could still see it clearly—the disgust on his face, the sneer twisting his mouth as he said, “You? You’re not even ranked, Tessa. You’re nothing. And flat.”
I’d been an awkward, scrawny girl with no curves, no confidence, and no one on my side. Just a trembling teenager whose biggest crime was dreaming that the Moon Goddess had given her someone who’d love her.
The pain had burned for days, weeks, months. Then Gunter. And my world was up side down again..
And even though I no longer felt anything for him—no love, no longing, nothing—I still didn’t want Gunter to see that man. I didn’t want him to hear whatever venom the Gamma would spit, just to get under our skin.
Gunter’
