BARRETT

She was starting to test me.

The girl didn’t know her place. She looked at me like I was a man she could reach, not the Alpha who owned her life.

But what unsettled me wasn’t her boldness, it was my reaction to it. I should’ve been disgusted when she touched me. I wasn’t.

It had never been like that before. Not even with Priscilla.

Touch, affection, skin, all of it used to make my stomach turn. I tried to force myself to feel something once, twice, ten times, until I started ...