Chapter 7

Wren didn't mention the hallway incident to anyone, not immediately — some careful instinct telling her to understand it better before she risked being told, again, that whatever she felt simply wasn't possible for someone without wolf blood. But she found herself watching Kane more closely in the days that followed, noticing things she hadn't let herself notice before: the way his shoulders tightened whenever certain pack members mentioned his father, the careful way he avoided the older wing of the main house entirely, the specific, practiced blankness that crossed his face whenever anyone brought up his childhood before his…