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

At first, he thought he must have been imagining it, but as the ominous sense of dread bred within him, birthing itself and spilling out to taint the world around him, he knew that it wasn't his mind playing peek-a-boo with with reality— somebody was there!

It was male — that much he was sure. Tall, thin and even though he had to squint, he could just about make out dark hair and glasses. And then, as though noticing Aiden's newfound attention, the figure threw up a hand in a mock salute and turned around. His body was swallowed by the mass of nature, lost as the shadows that lay inside the gaps between the towering trunks claimed him.

It must have been a pack member, Aiden tried to convince himself. He'd overheard a conversation between Remy and Clyde, leading him to believe the rest of the pack lived nearby in a self-acquired village. Maybe they were running patrols like Link and Eric and all the others?

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