CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

NICHOLAS’S POV

I want to run after. I know I shouldn't. Not after what she did to me. Marla broke my heart. But I love her.

I wish I didn't. I wish I could just forget about her. I wish my heart didn't beat faster every time she says my name.

But it does.

I walk into my bedroom and close the door. I need to clear my head.

She had no right to come here. To confuse me like this. She said we were done. She said that. It was her decision, and nothing I said was going to change her mind.

And I begged her. Me. The Alpha. I begged her. And that is not what Alpha's do.

And then she has the never to waltz in here and just expect me to forgive her. To let this go.

It's outrageous. It's an absolutely ridiculous request. But I want to fulfill it.

And that makes me angrier than anything.

I'm not sure what to do. I can't think straight. I remember the times I've been here with her and I get so frustrated thinking about how I can't have that again. I loved her. And despite everything, des