A Prime's Passion by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, shapeshifter romance, alpha male romance, reunited lovers, virgin
Publisher: Shiloh Walker, Inc.
Published: 2021-09-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

The clock was nearing the final minutes when Niko led the tall, eerily beautiful green-eyed man into the house. Shale, she remembered. His name was Shale. He smiled, a gentle expression that, oddly, set her at ease in a way nothing had since she'd realized Niko was about to plunge her life into chaos once more.

Niko, however, was not smiling.

His face was set in stoic lines that would have been unreadable, except that over the past day, she'd fallen back into old habits, learning to read cues she doubted many others would even notice.

“I haven’t formally introduced you, Zee,” Niko said, taking up a place at her shoulder, standing close—very close. “Zee, this is Shale, one of my lieutenants— and also a close friend. He'll be your escort for tonight. I'll have duties as Prime and you'll likely want to be someplace other than glued to my side.”

There was a grim note to his words that hinted he wanted her exactly there, glued to his side.

“Once we have a chance to make your status formally known to the entire pack, you won't need an escort, but everything has happened too fast for that to be viable,” he continued, gaze holding hers. There was a message in those words, but she didn't want to consider just what that message was right now. “All things considered, I'd rather you have one of my people with you, just in case.”

Twisting her lips to the side, she studied him and wondered if he thought she'd refuse. It irked her pride more than a little that he thought she needed protection, but she had to see herself the way he had, only a day earlier. And... even now.

She was still a little broken inside, had always been.

She'd found her strength during the years that she spent on her own, but she might never know who she could have been if her life had been different, if she hadn't had to stifle the growing dominance in her during her youth to avoid catching attention, then had her strength wither and fade when everything in her broke ten years ago.

One day, she told herself then. One day, I'll free myself.

Not for him. Not for a father who'd let her down time and time again, and then sold her out, all to catch the eye of a powerful man in hopes of saving their faltering pack—perhaps. Perhaps some might see it a noble cause, but they hadn't been the one used and sold out, then thrown away. Not for the brothers who hadn't come for her. And not for the lover who'd promised to always be there for her, then mere hours later, had tossed her aside.

She'd free herself for one person and one person only—herself.

So she could look in the mirror and finally find someone worthy of pride.

And, she had to admit, it wasn't just that. At the end of it all, she was a dominant wolf in a place where many didn't know her. Other

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