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17. The pull between us

Author: Rich
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-06 18:55:28

Max's POV

I think pain is more than just an emotion. Because this one hit me like a blade.

Just not a physical one. At least not at that very moment. It was sudden, sharp, and so out of place, I was frozen in her living room, my hand midair and hovering over my phone that I couldn't even look at anymore.

Then it struck again. This time, a tearing kind of sensation in my chest. As though something vital was being pulled out of me. I staggered backwards, gasping, with my knees hitting the edge of the couch behind her table.

The pain was so overwhelming, it radiated through me, feeling so deep and.....personal. In a way. Like it was mine.

My hand trembled.

Fuck, something was wrong.

And I somehow knew it had something to do with her.

How did I know? I didn't know since there didn't seem to be any logical reason for it. I had no explanations to offer either. All I had was certainty screaming down every nerve ending.

"Lana," my wolf growled her name like it was a prayer of some sort. A who
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