Tallowridge Pack: Wanting Me Is a Crime

The pale woman in the muddy jacket stares up at the step, mouth parted, color rising in her cheeks.

Personal watch. He says it like a punishment for me and not a collar on every other wolf in this yard.

My face goes red, and my stomach does something dumb and hopeful that I want to punch.

Tallowridge Pack: Wanting Me Is a Crime

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He tells me I’m nothing to him. My pulse doesn’t believe a word. I came to Tallowridge with a bag, a fake name, and a man’s promise to find me. The pack lets me clean the wolf pens for cash. Their alpha, Rhett, looks at me like I’m a stain and a meal at the same time. Then he says the one thing that could ruin me: not his mate. Not ever. But he keeps me under his roof. He growls when another man smiles at me. When he touches me, his hands shake. I want him to choose me without shame. I’m scared he’ll call it a mistake again. There’s a rule in this pack. No mates. No softness. No claims. Rhett says he’ll send me away before he breaks it. But someone from my old life is at the gate, and Rhett is not the man I thought he was. He calls me his mate. I don’t know if that means rescue or one more cage.