Chapter 31

We sat in silence on the way back to the Galanis compound and all I could think of was the interaction that just transpired with the wolf. Yes, I still wished to kill the annoying-faced she-wolf, but she was no longer in the forefront of my mind at the time. Everything I had went through in the last two weeks had been for naught. The discomfort I had put myself through, the physical pain I had felt, the healing I thought had taken place, none of it meant anything the moment I saw him again.

I clenched my fist thinking about how I would love to put it through the window, and I would have done just that, had I been alone. I was unsure how to proceed forward. The way his face lit up, the desire and utter need he had in his eyes in those last moments when I turned to him confirmed that I feared; that he would not give up on me until I relented. But I would never. I could never. He viewed me as some valuable treasure that he would venture to win against whatever odds he faced, but