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SORRY I COULDN'T STAY AND WATCH YOU BOND WITH SOMEONE ELSE

Author: Ray Nhedicta
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-27 19:35:19

Chapter 47

Nyx

The first night after the confrontation, I didn't sleep at all.

I just lay in bed staring at the ceiling while my mind replayed every moment of that conversation in the clearing on an endless, torturous loop.

The way Alex's face had gone pale when he saw me, the guilt in his eyes when he'd confirmed the bonding ceremony, the resignation in his voice when he'd admitted he'd known for two weeks.

Two weeks of lies. Two weeks of him pulling away while I thought I was going crazy, thought I'd done something wrong, thought maybe if I just tried harder to understand pack politics he'd let me back in.

But there was no letting me back in, because I'd never actually been in his world to begin with.

I was just the strange girl he'd traveled with for a while, the complication he had to deal with before accepting his real destiny with a real werewolf who actually belonged in his life.

Sleep finally came as dawn broke, restless and filled with dreams where I watched Alex and Lyra's
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