Raelyn’s POV I stare up at the ceiling from where I’m laying on the tiny cot that has been in the storage room of our basement for as long as I can remember. The single bulb above my head flickers as it lights up the bare walls around me. A scuffling sound outside the triple bolted door has me sitting bolt upright before a slow smile crawls across my face and I scramble to my feet. Moving toward the reinforced barrier, I sit down with my back against the wood. ‘You don’t need to guard me anymore Jasper, I’m not a little girl anymore and in all the full moons I’ve been in here, not one werewolf has tried to get down here let alone break through the door’ I call out through the heavy door. I hear the future Alpha curse before he replies, ‘I’m not guarding you Rae, I just happened to be w

