You’ll Watch Me Mate, But Never With You

Asher—my mate in name if not yet by bond—and Kieran, the beta who had watched me with longing for as long as I could remember, both turned indifferent the instant Veyla stepped onto the deck. My best friend. The one I trusted most. The shift in them was instant and brutal. Before I could even process it, they were openly courting her—right in front of the entire pack, right in front of me.

On that yacht, beneath the cold shine of the moon, I stood only a few steps away and yet might as well have been invisible.