Theo had been used to an empty house, or sometimes Adan sleeping on the couch overnight. He was used to waking up for school and smelling Scott cooking breakfast downstairs. That had been the norm for the wolf shifter for so long, it was the lifestyle he’d grown accustomed to.

But waking up to chatter downstairs was the newest adjustment for Theo, the pup had barely been able to sleep through the night. Knowing that Lance was sleeping over, sleeping just down the hall from ...