(Mavericks POV) Where are you? I asked Sapphire through mindlink as I paced around the room. For some work, Sapphire has gone out of the pack with the girls and that was seven hours ago. Seven f*****g hours without my little mate, and I and my wolf are on the edge. We're worried she'll get into trouble, though we know she is more than capable of protecting herself, as her mate it is in our nature to get worried about our mate. I've got her by some miracle and I'll die before I let anyone take her away from me. I love this woman with all I got and I'll never let any harm come her way. In the short time we've met, she has become my weakness and my strength at the same. She gave me the reason to keep living, to look forward to getting old with someone. She has changed me from a killer who