Chapter 54

Desiree. My eyes jolted open to the morning rays coming from the ceiling-to-floor window across the left side of my room. I sat up, my chest heaving up and down in a restless manner as my mark burned my skin. It wasn’t the morning rays that woke me up. I had that same nightmare again. Maddox’s Pack was up in flames, bodies spread across the lands, and at the center of it was Hunter mercilessly taking the life out of my mate. Just one night away from the Pack my dreams had returned. “Maddox…” I gasped and briskly left my bed in my nightgown. He had slept in the guest room last night but fear was deeply rooted in my heart that I feared something might have happened to him. I rushed out of my room only to be welcomed by the clattering sounds of plates in my kitchen. With a frown anchored on my face, I strode to the kitchen and there he was, carefully lacing slices of pancakes on our plates. Bubbles of joy popped in my chest and the pain I felt in my mark gradually faded, at least he was