Night came when Kiara least expected it. She had forced down dinner in an uncomfortable silence with the alpha, then she had taken a bath, and then she was here...in her room, looking down at her toes.

She didn’t know when outside got dark, but it was...she could see it through the curtains, could hear the night outside...

The silence that was only disturbed by a couple of things; the wind that whistled against the trees, the crickets that cried like they thought nobody could hear them and the