My pack mates are on their feet, snarling at the insult to their Alpha. I raise my hand, stopping them in their tracks. This isn’t the first time Julia has revealed the depraved depths of her obsession with me. The age gap between us is twelve years. When I was nine, a few days after my parents’ murder, she tried climbing into my bed. It was only the fact that Karina’s own pack’s elders found the incident deplorable that the newly appointed Queen, who had initially found the situation ...