Asher Graham has a secret he must protect, if he was to keep his Omega mother safe. All his life, he never truly belonged anywhere because they were always on the run. But when Asher figured out a way to stay alive, he took it, even if it meant enrolling into the deadly werewolf Academy, Stone Claw Academy, where cold, and ruthless Alphas were trained.

His secret would have been safe if he hadn’t gone ahead and pissed off Stone Claw Academy’s resident bad boy and bully, Alpha Reed Jackson. Asher took what belonged to the devil and called his bluff, now he had to pay for it with the title he has fought to keep or his life. When Alpha Reed gained the upperhand and found out his secret, Asher had to dance to his tune by being his playtoy or lose everything including his life.

The past came knocking soon enough, and now Asher has to choose between getting a clean slate or being with the man who had done nothing but torment him and make his deepest, darkest desires come true. Will Asher choose Reed over everything or risk what they have to get everything he has always wanted?

It was three in the morning when my phone buzzed, with sleeping eyes, I opened the phone and my eyes opened wide.


I stared at the message in the darkness. Reed never texted me at three AM. He never asked if I was awake. He usually just commanded me to come to him.


Three dots appeared, disappeared and reappeared again


I should have said no, I should have told him I was tired, I should have done anything except get out of bed and pull on clothes and walk across campus in the dark.


But the bond was pulling and something about the way Reed had asked instead of commanded made my chest ache.


Reed's door was unlocked when I got there.


I let myself in and found him sitting on his bed, back against the headboard, and still fully dressed. His room was dark except for the lamp on his desk casting long shadows across the walls. He looked tired, more tired than I'd ever seen him.


Chapter 69 - ALMOST TENDER