MasukThe room goes still the second I step inside. The air changes, thickening with unease.“A–Alpha,” one of them stammers.I stare at them, letting the silence stretch. “Since you all seem to have nothing better to do than gossip about your Luna…” I pause, voice dropping low, dangerous. “You can run ar
I barely sleep the whole night. Every time I close my eyes, I see her face. I see the way she looked three years ago when she begged me to believe her. When I saw the tears in her eyes. When I hurt her.Fuck, it feels like history repeating itself, all over again.I promised I’d never hurt her again
By the time dawn breaks, my legs ache, my lungs burn, and I can barely stand.I don’t remember how long I’ve been out here. The forest is silent now; birds have begun to stir in the pale light. My hands are sticky and my clothes are torn.I can’t feel any of it. None of it registers. Instead, I’m ju
I hear him leave. The soft sound of his footsteps fading down the hall feels like a knife twisting deeper into my chest.My back is pressed against the door, knees shaking, trying to hold myself together but the moment the silence stretches too long, I shatter.My legs give out, and I slide down the
I continue to follow her scent until it leads me to her room.I stand, exhaling shakily, staring at the door as if it could give me answers. As if it could help me fix this. Knox presses closer to the surface, restless and desperate as I am, to ease the pain I caused her today.I close my eyes brief
Knox’s growl rips through my mind the second I turn away from Lola.“Go after her.” I don’t even get the chance to think before his voice becomes a snarl. “Now, Alec. Find our mate before it’s too late.”He doesn’t need to tell me twice. The urge to find her is already burning inside me like a fucki







