Ashlynn

Kai Blackwood

**KAI BLACKWOOD — THE ALPHA WHO FOUND HIS MATE** Three years away at Alpha training had turned me into something most wolves feared. Stronger. Colder. More ruthless. I’d left my pack as a reckless twenty-one-year-old with something to prove, and I was coming home as the Alpha everyone expected me to become. The last thing I expected was to find my mate waiting for me. Especially when fate decided to make her the one girl I should never touch. My best friend’s little sister. The girl I’d watched grow up. The girl I’d teased, protected, and deliberately kept at arm’s length because she was always off-limits. She was supposed to be the annoying little shadow who followed us around, not the woman who would bring a fully trained Alpha to his knees with a single look. But the second I stepped into the packhouse and caught her scent, my wolf went absolutely feral. **Mate.** One word. One heartbeat. And suddenly, three years of discipline meant absolutely nothing. She looked at me with those beautiful eyes, completely unaware that she’d just turned my entire world upside down. Then my best friend stepped between us, his expression darkening as he noticed the way I was looking at his little sister.