Kane’s POV
The council meeting hadn’t even started before I knew it was a waste of time. It was just a quick exchange of formalities, a few lines of posturing and we were dismissed. Which was fine by me because the sooner I was back at the pack house, the better.
During the entire drive back, Rafe hadn’t stopped pacing inside me. We left her for too long.
I told myself Lucas wouldn’t be stupid enough to try anything but the mate bond doesn’t lie and right now, it was a live wire in my chest, humming with something hot and unfamiliar.
The second I stepped inside the pack house, I knew.
Her scent hit me first, it was sweet and warm, the one thing that always settled me but layered under it was something else, it was heat from something intimate.
Rafe’s snarl rattled my ribs. He touched
