Mute from birth, Aiden Monroe, a young hybrid, had learnt from a young age just how cruel the world could be.

Yet, as means to pay off an old debt, Aiden finds himself trapped in wolf territory. With the Alpha of the Blackwater pack still deciding his fate, he places Aiden's wellbeing in the hands of his emotionally distant nephew, Lincoln Briar. 

At first, Aiden finds himself thinking that Link was just a cold hearted beast, a monster that spoke with such venom that even snakes would bow their head in respect. Yet, the more time that they were forced to spend together, the more Aiden began to realize that there was a tenderness to the beast, a gentleness, though subtle, that he had almost overlooked.

But when the outside threat that had been hanging over the Blackwater pack crept closer, Aiden, with his own life potentially in danger, finds himself thinking that perhaps a beast is only a beast after all.

And his silence, for as loud as it could sometimes be, would never be enough to tame such a beast. Right?

Silence and the Beast

<p>/"I kept thinking about them long after the show had ended. I kept thinking that if those stirring that made them dance so brightly were cut, what would happen? Would those little deadheaded puppets crumble to the ground, broken and useless? Or would the show have continued, as though they were bound by more than just ticky-tack and string? It drove me insane, all that wondering. Was the will of the puppeteer so strong that it could outweigh the laws of physics itself?/"</p>

<p>The ringing in his ears, it seemed louder now. More intense. It fell into step with the rapid flutter of his heart, a maddening symphony that almost made deafness more appealing than muteness.</p>

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