Chapter 14

Mabel

Seeing Jerome, who was laying on the bed like a dead dog of wood, I felt my heart ache, and I couldn't help but feel pain that he would have to die. I knew that things might not move the way I want them to between the both of us, but there is no way I would be able to get things to go back to normal. Things had turned out this way because of his choices. He chose to be with Erica, and now he would pay for the consequences of that.

The anger I was feeling earlier when Erica was talking to me in a commanding tone had vanished, and I was in a state of anger, not knowing what to do. It was like things weren't always as I wanted. I had promised myself to pretend to care for him, but that won't be the case anymore because I will care for him. I will care for him and make him feel what it is to be cared for by another person who isn't one's mate.

I knew that the head of the werewolf council wouldn't have wanted to kill him if he hadn't wanted to be with Erica so badly, and I knew th