Nora She sat in her room and felt Jace connect a mind-link to her. She’d tried to push it from herself like she’d done so many times before over the past few days, not wanting that man inside her head. But he, as the Alpha, was she knew, forcing it to actually open and stay connected to her, and she had his undivided attention. It was just her and him, there was no one else attached to it that she could sense at this particular moment in time. He wasn’t willing, it seemed, to let her reject the connection, and she wondered just how much effort he was actually putting into it, because she was fighting damned hard against it herself, and had been for many minutes now. Her sole focus was on trying to stop it, and she could feel that it wasn’t just Jace, but Hydro as well. It made her realiz

