Malachi’s POV It was no surprise that a rogue wolf would appear to be a threat to their pack lands, but this girl was not in wolf form, she seemed mild-mannered and non-threatening, and moreover, she was my mate. She didn’t smell like a rogue that had gone feral, but it was clear as day she didn’t belong to a pack. I was confused, and I needed to get answers. Marci nudged me and gave me a look which I deciphered as ‘follow me!’ Ordinarily, out of defiance and stubbornness, the Alpha in me would have shrugged it off and done my own thing, but I needed to talk to her. As I followed Marci back to where our clothes were, so we could shift back, I began to wonder why, as the strongest Alpha in our area, I had been fated to a shifter who seemingly had been brought up as a human. Not only tha