Julian hadn’t realized I was in trouble because of the medicine he was taking to dim the effects of our bond. With the bond dimmed, it made sense that he hadn’t felt me calling him out to him through it.
What a fool I had been, forcing that medicine on him. I hated everything about it.
And how kind he was to ask me permission to stop taking it. He truly trusted me and respected me, giving me the choice like this.
At once, all of the misplaced hostility I had felt toward Julian disappeared, and in its place, I really just wanted to see him.
And why shouldn’t I?
I couldn’t go back to my clinic with Anna, as that town was too small to offer the kind of protection I needed. But Julian’s pack was the opposite. His was the largest pack on the continent, even larger than Rafael’s. As the Alp
