Chapter 56: The Mating Call
ELIA
She'd had a lovely dinner with Candace, and Gahrye had sat with her for a while too. The entire city was planning to attend what they called a Reading that night—apparently some kind of show where actors read a story in the amphitheater. Elia was eager to see it and share the experience, she'd yet to see entertainment in Anima. But staring at Reth's empty chair—again—for the whole meal had worn her out. The weight of his absence pressed her down. There was still no news about where he was, or why he'd been gone for so long. And the worried burrowed under her skin. She'd barely slept the night before, thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong, and stroking the furs where he last lay. She'd even given in and curled up on his sleeping platform, just to be close to his smell.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
AimeeLynn
AimeeLynn RISE OF THE DARK ALPHA
Just days after Sasha gave herself to her childhood love, he disappeared. Five years later, on a dark city street, Zev came back—with danger on his tail.
Zev is Chimera: Half-human, half-wolf. Made in a secure research lab, his existence is a secret. But when the powerful men who created him try to kill the only woman who ever made his heart sing, Zev snaps their leash and steals her away to the brutal, hidden world of the Chimera clans.
Torn between the magnetic draw of her first love and the painful betrayal of his disappearance, Sasha tries to keep Zev at arms-length. But when they reach this mysterious world, Zev discovers that in his absence the humans took control and stole almost all the females. The Chimera are dying—and Zev isn’t Alpha anymore.
Now, Zev must fight his own people to win the right to mate his only love. Can he prove to her that his long-ago promise to protect her heart, as well as her body, was true? Or will the humans cross worlds to hunt the wolf and tear the lovers apart forever?
[Mature content, no sexual assault]
NOTE: This book is a standalone story and NOT part of the Anima/King of Beasts series (but fans should keep an eye out for Easter Eggs!)
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