Chapter Seventeen

HAILEY

Last night was delightful. Carter showed me a part of him which I didn't know he had. We talked for us before we returned back home. Surprisingly, after I told him about Tristan and Maya's betrayal, he in turn told me a little about Alanna and himself.

"Alanna and I were childhood sweethearts. We loved ourselves dearly and always knew that when we finally become of age, we'd be mates." I could hear pure sadness in his voice as he opened up to me.

"We were inseparable even though my family was against our union because she was a half breed. Half wolf and half woman." Just the same way he listened to me, I did the same for him.

"On the night of the full moon, the day we were finally going to have our first shift, Alanna mysteriously disappeared without a trace. I searched everywhere for her all to no avail. My family, nobody wanted to lend a helping hand because according to them she was not a complete wolf. We didn't get the chance to identify as mates. We were cruelly deprived