Auren POV

Watching Lorien walk away felt like ripping a piece out of me one of the hardest things I’d done since I became Alpha. I didn’t trust Riven with her, not for a heartbeat. Every time I caught him looking at her, something dark and hot lodged in my throat. I wanted to tear those looks from his face.

He was testing me, deliberately pressing at some line I hadn’t decided existed yet. If the queen hadn’t been staring at me like I was the one about to be hunted, I would have ...