Chapter Eighteen: Elide

CLAIRE's POV

I sat in my room - Dominik’s - room all day, downcast and utterly drained.

I tried not to panic about the fact that I did not feel my wolf anywhere near me.

I had been hurt by the pack members and my mate.

She had also been hurt so I decided that she was having an alone time to lick her wounds.

Silently, I wondered how I had ever lived without her. She was the crazy to my sane.

She gave me the sultry and stubborn head vibe.

I did not really understand where I had suddenly gotten my craziness at first but after Dominik had left the room, it started to dawn on me.

The first time in my entire life when I felt I did not want to just lie low and take peoples insults was the night she finally came out.

She was like a different entity entirely, an entity that lived in my head and sometimes took over my body.

Where I was indeed weak and submissive, she was crazy and sultry and stubborn and … crazy.

And now that she was not here, it all felt weird to me.

I had been drained bo