We couldn’t depend on Justin’s pack for this.
We were going to have to stand on our own.
Claire’s POV
I’d only been back in Ivan’s pack for a few days, but I was already feeling like my old self again. I had no delusions that Gideon would show up here unannounced. In the past, he had come for Leo, but without Leo here, I doubted he would come just for me.
So I took off my mask and set it aside. I even decided to wash the black dye out of my hair and go back to my natural red.
There was no reason for me to hide anymore.
To fast track my hair back to its original red, I had to dye it again, as close as I could to my natural color. But looking in the mirror, I felt some relief, seeing myself again.
When I met Ivan in the hallway, he hummed when he saw me. “You’ve changed your hair,” h
