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The door was unlocked, which wasn’t normal. Had Dusk left it like that so I could let myself in when I came back?
He wasn’t in the living room anymore, but the TV was on, playing a show I didn’t recognise. I hugged myself, eyes darting up to Ransom’s room.
What was I supposed to do?
The Lincoln pack were my mates, and they wanted me.
It was everything I had ever dreamed of. My own poisonous scent would no longer put me in danger, and I would never be under threat of a dark bond again.
The Kingsman pack... they couldn’t offer me what my mates could.
The only ending with them was a dark bond.
My fingers crept to the tiniest scar on my neck. It was almost completely faded now. Tears burned my eyes.
But I stood for an age, desperately wondering why those moments with Eric paled the more I replayed them—as I understood, at last, the truth I’d been running from.
I was stepping down the hall to Dusk’s room before I could think, stopping at his door.
Whatwasmy plan?
Talk to him. Tell him everything.
Tell him that I wanted his pack, and hope he had an impossible answer?
But even breathing in midnight opium in the hall, I felt it.
I’d have to tell him why I was scared of a dark bond, though even admitting that put me at risk. Before, I’d been afraid that if he found out that was the only bond he could ever give me, he would do it right then, knowing he had to keep me from my mates.
But if I told him Ichosehim… It would change everything.
Dusk could have dark bonded me by now, and he hadn’t. It was the truth I couldn’t let go of, the tiny daring part of me that believed everything he’d ever said. Because if it wasn’t true, if this was about a claim and nothing else, he could have stolen my freedom forever.
He wanted more.
Hewasthe impossible, already breaking rules I’d been caged by. A new path was lighting before me, one unknown… Where before, the only option was to run to my mates—claim a life safe and protected where my scent wouldn’t put me in danger, there was now them.
I could choosethem.
I don’t know how they slipped beneath my defences. I didn’t know when Dusk had become safe, but my life was made of dead ends, and Dusk broke all the rules.
Maybe… no bond? Could we make that work?
Could they protect me, anyway?
I wasn’t sure. I didn’t have the answer, but we would figure it out.
A brief moment of hope lit in my chest. A thrill, as I truly realised what I was about to do. Through the fear, the unknown, I had something… mine.
Thispack was mine.
A family who wanted me for who I was.
Outside of fate, it was a piece I could claim back.Mytrade, I would face my fears for this choice. Give up safety for the first true freedom I had ever claimed.
Daring and terrifying, it gave me a piece ofmefor the first time since I had woken as no one.
With this choice, came a thousand possibilities I’d never dared dream, not even with my mates. I’d known I wouldn’t be their ideal, that I would have to beg them to accept me. But the Kingsman pack wanted me as I was—that’s what Dusk had said… wasn’t it?
