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Joanna. Jo. Mountain lion.
She’s gorgeous. Sunny, sandy blonde hair. A body with curves for days, petite stature. Mountain lions are dangerous enemies, and it looks like her father is an alpha of a pride that borders our western boundary. Mountain lion prides are infamous for having enormous territories, and it looks like if someone mates his daughter, he’d be happy to part with about ten thousand acres.
Ten thousand acres.
Something is either really fucking wrong with Jo, or this is a deal that’s too good to be true.
I pull the tablet closer to my eyes, trying to focus on her. Jo seems great. Since all shifters take after their fathers, she’d be the mother to the next pack alpha, and she radiates confidence and strength. I have no doubt that she’d be a fierce mother and an asset to our pack.
But I don’t want her.
Sighing, I put the tablet down. I pinch the bridge of my nose between my fingers, keeping the headache behind my eyes at bay. Another bad thing about being a shifter, and pounding alcohol to get drunk?
You still get hungover at the same intensity as a human. Except it comes on faster.
Leaves faster.
But I’m about to be in for a big one.
My stomach feels like I’m going to throw up. I don’t want any of this. When I became alpha, it was something I’d trained for my whole life. I didn’t love it, but I knew I had to do it. Sex, partnership, none of that mattered to me.
Only my pack did.
And now, I’m here. Basically five months out from my thirtieth birthday. About to lose it all.
Because I can’t get the image of pale blonde hair and hazel eyes out of my mind.
I’m not sure if it’s the booze or the headache or actually my mind, but the thought of losing my ability to shift suddenly doesn’t feel quite as cataclysmic as it once did.
It actually kind of sounds…
I gulp.
It sounds nice.
Adrenaline floods my system and my heart pounds. How could I think that? How could it be nice? What, one day I’m a wolf, and the next I’m just… not?
It shouldn’t sound like freedom.
But what if it was?
I sit back on the couch, staring at the picture of Jo on the tablet.
Could I give everything up?
Shockingly, it wouldn’t be that hard. Evander would be just as good an alpha. I know my brother, and despite the fact that he’s not my biggest fan right now, I know he’d make an excellent alpha. Dad trained both of us for the job, and we were both prepared to step up.
But only one son can be alpha.
And it was me.
However, if I pass on the title to Evander in the next few weeks…
I shake my head.
This still doesn’t solve the bigger problem, which is that Iris has a relationship with a human man. And she’s having his baby.
But…
