Chapter 4

After that was done, I went to pack headquarters as usual.

Caelum walked into the operations wing while I was sorting files.

He looked at me once, nothing in his expression.

"Sera. Bring this quarter's report to my office."

"Of course, Alpha Voss."

I said it without thinking twice.

He stopped for just a beat.

"You adjusted quickly." He said it quietly, almost to himself.

He passed me and let his fingers graze the back of my hand as he went.

I did not pull away. I did not respond.

Their relationship had never been a secret inside pack headquarters.

Six years of him walking me out after shifts, six years of appearances at pack functions together, and everyone had known without it ever being said out loud.

But because it had never been made official, his calling me Sera and my calling him Alpha Voss looked, to everyone else, perfectly appropriate.

That evening, he sent me a location. I took a car there.

When I pushed open the suite door, rose petals covered the floor, and a silk slip hung from the rack by the wardrobe.

"She was gone, but her perfume still lingered in the air."

Behind me, Caelum's voice came from the doorway. "Seen enough?"

I turned around.

He leaned against the frame, cigarette in hand, watching me with something that was not quite a smile.

"The bonding ceremony is next week. I need you there to help manage the guests."