Laura S. Fox

Thank you!

Theodore is not exactly tamed... but he'll be left no choice but to play nice Oh, lol, I am so out of touch with politics that your last remark had me google the two names at the end! I thought that I mentioned some other pack members and forgot, lol!

You hopes will materialize just like that after this story is concluded - the sequel will be posted per the usual schedule instead of Wolf in the City.

Danny and Ryder are close to their HEA, and the epilogue will - hopefully - link smoothly with the sequel

So true!

Mating interruptus should be an official term, lol. The next chapter - just posted - concludes the mating

Thank you!

I thought of letting Danny be a human, albeit one with special abilities. I wanted to keep this thing, of them being different, but meant to be together, so I didn't go down that route.

I knew how everyone waited for this...

While Danny and Ryder will live their happy end, the others will start their adventure... And the sequel will come as soon as this one is over, so you'll have all the answers

Ha-ha, I wonder if such a thing exists...

I planned for him to remain a human but one with special abilities. But he will run with the pack!

You guys have been waiting for so long... you deserve this

Chapter Twenty-Nine – To Bond with an Alpha Ryder’s wolf took delight in leaving small bite marks along Danny’s back, this time playful without going too deep, barely grazing the skin. His mate trembled, waiting to be mounted, offering his lovely body without saying a word or protest in any way. Danny had called him his alpha, surrendering completely. The sight of Danny’s behind was enough for Ryder to want to rip his jeans off, as well. But now that he had marked his mate, he was no

Oh, my, a darker turn...

Lyn's dad will actually be an essential plot point. It will throw light on 'shadowy' places.

I will not delve specifically into Lyn's mom's past, but I did choose her first name with a clear intention in mind... You won't learn it until later, she's only 'mom' for now, but the literary reference - I like to believe - will be as clear as day. Appearances matter to her, that's why she doesn't wonder at all why Lyn is lying. I'm glad that you and other readers understand why Lyn's and Alexander's relationship would have been pretty strained in the past and not on equal ground. The past is needed to make the present make sense And Alexander did some growing up, of course! He has a different strategy now... while in the past, he didn't have a strategy at all, to be honest.

Definitely!

Oh, yes, I love it how you, readers, pick up more and more clues about Lyn and his character, and especially his 'why's'. The difference between him and his mom is that, indeed: she's impractical, so he tries to be practical. It might not have been his place to do that as a child, but he's not a child anymore. Lyn's background will continue to be revealed through his flashback chapters. And again, it is important to see that exactly the fact that Alexander is helping him with money actually builds a wall between them. Despite the best intentions in the world, charity can feel humiliating, especially for someone like Lyn who works so hard to not need charity. It also makes him be less receptive to Alexander's true feelings. There is definitely a dynamic taking place in these scenes where all of them are together. The balance is fragile And that's all I will say for now.

I thought the flashback might make readers remember things from their own youth. I did worry - writing the chapter - that readers will naturally judge the lack of precaution the characters show, but I've seen it happening so many times - when we're young, we tend to ignore danger because other things are more important to us. Lyn is, on the dot, exactly as you say. I want all the characters to have layers, Brad included, of course. I think I mentioned it before... he's the toughest character to read, because Lyn is the narrator and he's the one who fails to read Brad. But readers will pick up cues, I know it Like you did right here. And Alexander is mad at himself, especially. And maybe, just maybe, from realizing how vulnerable you become when you love someone.

Oh, that's such a good catch! I mean, Lyn is a very competent person in many areas of life, even if he suffers greatly on the inside and fears real intimacy. So yes, you readers get to see his anxieties and just like in his own eyes, these anxieties obscure just how good he actually is at doing things. So nice of you to notice the metaphor Also, I failed to mention it in my previous comment - melancholy is such a good word, thank you for finding it. Mom does want to keep Lyn to her version of safe. Brad is the distraction with dangerous potential. And Alexander... oh, well, he's always with Lyn, even if not in person

Oh, Maestro, of course you'd notice... yes, Alexander is mad at himself for failing to understand the situation! It is something I experienced in life with people, especially parents. Parents are getting mad at their children when something dangerous happens... when they're not actually that mad at their children, as they are at their own inability to detect that danger in advance! It is the sort of care that's easy to mistake for anger - also because of communication issues, of course. I loved Cyrano, I watched it a lifetime ago. Now I feel tempted to watch it again. The only one I watched is the version with Gérard Depardieu in the main role. That nose must have earned him the role! And I know Lyn appears so 'easy' here... easy to lean into Brad's care while Alexander watches from a few feet away... I wonder how readers don't feel more tempted to throw rotten eggs at Lyn!

I'm glad that you mention Alexander putting up a front, too. It's difficult to keep these two lanes - how Lyn sees things, how readers (surely) perceive them. 'We' know Alexander likes Lyn; Lyn doesn't. That's one of the sources of the drama, of course. And you're right, unsustainable is a great word for the situation. And it will all come to a head... Thank you for the praise

Then it means I succeeded in transferring Lyn's mom's anxiety from the 'virtual' page to you, dear reader!

It was one of the points of the chapter to show Brad's recklessness. Also, how the others didn't think much about safety, either, because in real life, people tend to overlook what they believe to be 'the little things'. That's how tragedies happen more often than not. On the other hand, Lyn misread Alexander, once again. He's too caught up in his own head to see the truth.