April I had been staring at the ceiling for the last 30 minutes. The weight of Ethan's words from last night still seemed heavy on my chest. I should have known there was something more to Nicholas's actions and realised this was more than him just wanting some strong female mate for his son. I wondered now whether any of my former pack had survived, I was always led to believe they had all died, wiped out in a single night. It's not as though I had actually seen anything, I was only a pup when my mom made me run. It had me also wondering; if I was so integral to his father's plans, why didn't Hunter show more interest? Not that I actually wanted him to, I preferred that he never spoke or looked at me. Now that I really thought about it, that night he came to mark me, it was as though I w