Chapter 17: Wolf in the Woods Friday’s POV Thaddeus led me to the woods. It was a cloudy day. I loved when it was overcast like this. The woods were so nice and cool, not too hot, not too cold. The air was crisp. The breeze was refreshing. The trees looked so lush and green. A few of the leaves here and there had just started to brown in anticipation of fall. Thaddeus stopped walking and held both of my hands. “I missed you like crazy, yesterday,” he said. My heart hurt to hear he had been in pain yesterday. “I missed you too,” I said. “I know. I felt your sadness through our mate-bond,” he said. “Really?” I was surprised. He could feel what I was feeling. “Yeah, but then after my run, I came upstairs to find you fawning over Maze,” he said, the hurt in his voice apparent. I