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

“Jude? I know it hurts, but you can think for yourself. Do you want to try the morphine? We could get your hand in a cast faster that way.” Sean kept his voice firm to penetrate through the injured wolf that was currently partially blocking everything for his son’s human side.


“It will hurt later, too, if you stay a wolf. We’ll have to take off the cast before you shift and redo it when you’re human. Might be easier to take the risk.” Noah leaned forward, never minding the growl from the wolf, who was only having trouble trusting the medic he knew when said medic happened to be a cat who could be dangerous to him at the moment.


Finally the growling subsided and the wolf turned its head to look at Sean. Then he nodded.


“Okay. Morphine it is. I’ll hold you, okay?” Sean said and wrapped his arms around his son’s form tightly. Better for him to get bitten than either of the cats. “Noah, knock the wall three times.”


Chapter 26