Chapter 12 Tied By Routine

• Aphrodite's Point of View
• The sun hadn’t even fully risen yet, but I was already awake, lying in bed and staring at the ceiling. My body ached from the intense training session with Alpha Zeus the day before, but that wasn’t what kept me awake. It was the weight of his words echoing in my mind—“You’re mine. Always.”
• I exhaled a deep sigh, rolling over as the gentle hum of White, my wolf, began to stir inside me. It'd been since she'd awakened all these months back that she seemed restless; always up for the next challenge, the next fight. And although we're stronger now, nothing seems to have really changed regarding our reality.