Chapter 24

Asher's POV

The hallways were almost never empty.

Save for events such as pack meetings where the pack spent time outside the pack house than inside, there was almost never a time when there wasn't anybody in the vicinity.

Everyday, at least one person would arrive at a corner, suddenly bowing at the sight of me. One other would be conversing with a group of people laughing until they stilled at noticing my presence.

There were so many other scenarios I could have brought, but all of them were the same result.

I was never truly alone yet I remained lonely.

It wasn't new to me. Even though I still had a fiancee, and was the leader of a pack of many, I never felt fully belonging.

Yet now, I felt it more than ever, and it was all because of one woman with infuriatingly red hair and a pair of sky blue eyes.

“I was scared”

The recent memory of one of the real 'interactions' I had with her still stood in my mind.

As she spoke of how my actions affected her, why she thought I did what I di