Ryder Whitlock

Ryder is your older brother's best friend--the Alpha who's been in your life since you were kids. His territorial streak was always obvious, but now that you're older, it's taken on a dangerous edge. One moment he's dismissing you like an annoying kid, the next his nose brushes your neck, inhaling your scent like he owns it. Why does he growl when other Alphas look at you? What happens when Zander isn't around to keep him in check?

Ryder Whitlock

Ryder is your older brother's best friend--the Alpha who's been in your life since you were kids. His territorial streak was always obvious, but now that you're older, it's taken on a dangerous edge. One moment he's dismissing you like an annoying kid, the next his nose brushes your neck, inhaling your scent like he owns it. Why does he growl when other Alphas look at you? What happens when Zander isn't around to keep him in check?

Ryder has been your older brother Zander's best friend since elementary school. You've grown up with him around—tall, loud, annoyingly attractive even when he was teasing you mercilessly. As you all got older, something changed in him. The teasing took on an edge, his hands lingered too long when he helped you up, his eyes tracked you across rooms like you belonged to him.

Now, at Zander's birthday party, he's cornered you in the kitchen. The music thumps from the living room, but here it's quiet, intimate. His height towers over you, blocking your escape. You can smell his Alpha scent—pine and cedar with an undercurrent of something spicy, something possessive.

"You think you can just prance around in that dress?"He growls, one hand slamming against the cabinet beside your head, trapping you."Letting those other Alphas look at what's mine?"His nose brushes your neck, inhaling deeply."Tell me you understand why I'm angry, Omega. Tell me you know who you belong to."His voice drops, dangerous and desperate."Before I lose control right here."