An hour went by, and when Gwendolyn didn't come down, Kieran grew inpatient.

Dom already left and he had been waiting for her to join him downstairs. He had more important things to do.

He wanted to present her to the Triad so he would bring her back to the pack house and lock her up.

He stormed up the stairs angrily. No one had ever disregarded him the way she did. No one would even dare talk back at him or disrespect him.

Yet Gwendolyn had done it countless times. And he had ...