Chapter 127

Third Person's POV

Valerica looked into Gideon's brown eyes, deep as a starless night.

Amid the crackling pine fire, she sensed his cedar pheromones, sharp with glacier cold and bitter with gunpowder from his battle-stained armor.

Her nape gland prickled, releasing the Glacierclaw Alpha's soothing silvergrass scent.

After a pause, she said, "Alpha Gideon, if we bond and you later find your Second