Claire’s POV By the time we returned back the pack house, that flicker of mate bond feelings had dissipated. However, I had been certain that I had felt it, and wasn’t likely to forget it. I just didn’t know it meant, or if I was ready to face the truth of what it could mean. It was too heavy, too real. I had only discovered the truth of my lineage, and was still recovering from that strange illness I had suffered. I didn’t know yet where I was going to live, or what I was going to do for work for the rest of my life. My life was awash in change. I wasn’t in the kind of steady place I needed to be in to be properly sorting these kinds of feelings out right now. Yet, the Moon Goddess was not patient. And her will wasn’t easily ignored. Though we split for that night without issue, si

