Samuel laughed out loud. "You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.

She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. “She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren’t for the two subs in the pack, I’d be on the bottom. And she wouldn’t stand up in my presence for guilt.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.