Chapter 59

As the first light of morning entered our room, I woke up. The recent events — the unity ceremony and the joining of our packs — had made me tired but happy. I realized that Xander lay beside me, his warm heat sinking into my skin. He breathed steadily, the quiet comforting weight of his arm over my hip.

I carefully turned to look at him without waking him up. His face was younger, smoother, without the perennial furrows across his brow that seemed etched there ...