BRUCE

Mate.

My wolf keeps repeating the word over and over again in my mind, and it doesn't matter how hard I try to flush it out and forget all about Alpha Robert's daughter.

She's my mate, and my wolf demands that I acknowledge her.

Opal's in a terrible mood and I don't know why or how to fix it. I don't believe she noticed that Agnes was my mate—how could she have when I kept everything under the radar?

As I follow Opal through the venue, where she stops beside the same group of ...