AURORA POV
*one week after the battle in Bloodhoud pack*
My heart was splitting in two.
Seeing my brother and my best friends head out of Bloodhound Pack had been one of the toughest things I’d ever done in my life.
Marking Stan to save his life had been the first.
I always had faith in the mate bond. My parents had fallen in love at first sight—at first scent—and their bond grew steady and strong with a kind of stability that could bend mountains. They were each other’s strength, each other’s salvation. I grew up believing in that kind of bond, believing that the Moon Goddess and the Dragon Flame never made mistakes.
I never expected to have a traitor as a mate.
Never expected to have to fight my dragon’s instinct and stop myself from falling for someone who had served the one who
