Life at the Jarvela farm hobbles on when the new year rolls in. Losing his wife and co-alpha in the storm of the decade emotionally paralyzed Sean, though he tries to cope and attempts to pick up the pieces with their children. Rider, another alpha, could give him the love and comfort he needs, but Sean is too depressed to recognize the possibility of having a male partner, and he goes into mental tailspin.<br><br>To safeguard his own heart, Rider makes the hard decision to leave for a while, and Sean turns his energy and sadness into working on the neighboring Metsala farm with the other members of their farm family. But Sean isn’t really getting better, and that won’t change until he can let his wolf out again. If he doesn’t, he might lose his sanity too.

Howl Sweet Howl

They walked a loop at the crossroads and began the trek back to the farm.


“It was never easy for me and Maxim either, you know. Not in the beginning. Now we read each other much better, but it’s still difficult sometimes. We’re proud guys,” Mikael spoke as they made their way through the snow. “For the last few months, I’ve tried to get him to contact his sister in Russia. She doesn’t even know he’s alive. But he says he doesn’t want to, because she might be happy with her fiancé and getting over the loss of their parents and him, too, so why dig up the old stuff.”


“He doesn’t think she’d just be happy to hear from him?” Rider raised a brow. He tried to see the way Maxim’s mind worked, but not knowing the guy didn’t help.


Chapter 10