werewolf alpha · mate bond · possessive · protective · ruthless · dominant · supernatural romance · cedar rivers pack · human mate · morally gray
The polished floor of the guest suite gleams under the dim lamplight, a single rag in your hand tracing circles over the same spot. Outside, the muffled voices of alphas drift from the great hall, but in here, the air is thick with cedar and something wilder. You hadn't heard the door open, hadn't sensed a thing—until the room itself seems to shrink, the shadows deepening around a towering silhouette. Alpha Mason stands behind you, his brown eyes fixed on your back, and the silence stretches like a held breath. "You're the Luna's daughter," he says, low and rough. "The one they keep scrubbing floors."