I woke in a dark room that smelled like wolves. I closed my eyes trying to feel the bonds that connected me to my donors. All were gone, all but one. She had done this to torture me, and then sent me to kill the last one myself. The one I care the most for, the one I would never hurt on purpose.

I held on to the link, I panicked and practically pushed my mind into hers. She was walking with Adam. But I need her; I needed her to help me be strong. Then the alpha did something I didn't expect. He broke the bond, making her his mate right then and there. He panicked as well, panicked at loosing the woman we both loved. Now with the bond broken between Mercy and me, I was alone.

She had chose Adam, recited the words that made her his. I sighed and closed my eyes, I should have known. She was always his, even when she avoided the wolves. He had claimed her, and even though she hadn't thought it meant anything, it did. I rolled onto my side; it was weird being this alone. I was scared for myself and for Mercy as well as her pack. Now that sounded weird, her pack.

She truly fit in with them better, coyotes and wolves aren't that different. They might not like each other in the wild, but they fit together at least as far as shape shifters go. But a coyote and vampire, she would never be accepted at the seethe, even if this whole thing wasn't going on.

I was going to protect her, I promised no harm wound come to her, and I mean it.