The Alpha's Secret Heart

Previously

…“If you need anything,” he said, his voice a low rumble, “anything at all, you come to me.” I nodded, a knot of apprehension loosening slightly in my chest. As he turned to leave, his gaze swept back over the garden, lingering for a moment on the patch of earth where I’d been weeding. A faint frown creased his brow, a shadow of something he couldn’t quite place. He didn’t see it, the fleeting shimmer, the subtle glow. But he felt the shift, the disturbance in the energy of the place. And in that moment, I knew my secret, while hidden from his sight, had left an undeniable ripple. The adventure had truly begun, and I was already walking a tightrope over an abyss.