Vincent
It had been hard, so much harder than he expected, to hide the fact that Nadia was his second chance from her. It had only grown harder when he’d begun to realise she might suspect, after she casually mentioned being soothed by his scent one morning. His wolf spirit was constantly fighting, pushing against him in a struggle to get out and reach for its mate. It took all his strength to tamp it down.
You’re her guardian. She can’t know. She deserves better. This is just another one of the secrets you have to keep from her, so she can be safe.
But he’d never expected Nadia to confront him about it head-on. That moment had nearly broken all of his carefully-held control.
“I’ve been reading a lot,” she’d announced behind him that morning at lessons, as he wrote about some blan
