CHAPTER TEN
IT ALL MAKES SENSE
I’ve often dreamed of the moment when my life would change. I imagined it would come in the form of a good job offer after graduation. Or maybe, in some wild stroke of luck, I’d stumble upon a winning lottery ticket and everything would fall into place. But never did I think this would be it.
Not finding out that a wolf like me, outcast, low-ranked, barely tolerated, was not only allowed a mate, but had already been chosen by one. And that mate… is Theo of all the wolves in the world.
Theo, with his quiet fire and storm-colored eyes. Theo, the one person I never let myself imagine as mine. Is this some kind of cosmic joke? A cruel trick played by a universe that likes to dangle happiness just out of reach?
Panic flares in my chest like wildfire. I can fe
