KATE
The sound of the voice I had been hoping to hear for nearly a week sent a shiver down my spine, momentarily freezing me in place.
All through the week, I had imagined this very moment in my head, going through various scenarios of our re-encounter and playing out what I would say to the Alpha when I saw him again…
But now that the moment was here, all of that practice had vanished in the wake of my rapidly beating heart, leaving me speechless with not a single one of the words I had rehearsed in place.
I slowly, almost reluctantly, stood to my feet and turned around, a part of me hoping that, perhaps, the words I had just heard had been a figment of my imagination,
That he wasn’t really standing behind me…
But as fate would have it, there he stood when I finally mustered the
