The Unexpected Mate

Vander lay motionless in the pitch-black bedroom, his broad back facing the heavy oak door. His eyes remained wide open, piercing through the thick shadows of the room. His sharp, heightened werewolf hearing tracked every microscopic shift in the hallway. He could hear her hesitant, uneven breaths lingering just outside the threshold. The erratic, rabbit-like thumping of her heart echoed in his ea