Ethan's eyes snapped open, a smile playing on his lips. He straightened up feeling his back completely tense after being in the same position for hours. His brother, the supposed alpha had left him in that cell with only a blanket and nothing else. He could be a little more considerate, but coming from him he expected it. What could be expected from the son of that damned wolf who had abandoned him and his mother adrift, in the middle of the forest, surrounded by savages and without food.

Just remembering those years made him pull out his fangs and want to dig up the body of the former alpha, the one who had only given his essence and slit his own throat.

But now was not the time to think about it. It was the one who came walking in his direction that filled all his attention. He had called her countless times, especially in the evenings, to leave her brother and come with him. He could give her what Dixon surely could not. In the end she had come to his call and that filled him with