Layla started work on the cafe designs the very next day. She and Gabriel soon fell into a rhythmic routine with each other and just as Layla had suspected, she and Gabriel became fast friends. Each morning Gabriel would wake before dawn and Layla would meet him in the packhouse kitchen with coffees already made for their drive into town. The more days that passed, the more at home Layla felt.
Tensions within her began to uncoil themselves from their grip on her emotions as she finally, possibly for the first time, started to feel free. Not that she was ever a prisoner, but with Jaxon’s pack she was starting to feel a sense of acceptance that she just didn’t have before.
That was with the exception of Nik and Theo. The Beta and Gamma had hardly warmed to her in the weeks she had been s
