Chapter 14. Bella POV

As the miles trickled by, I passed the time by casting my mind back to the past for reassurance. I played out what Bram would have told this guy. A guy whose name I still didn't know. Bram would totally have told him to shove it and headed off on his own. He'd have flared up and got angry.

He could be so wild when in a rage, not that I ever saw that before my crime. After Luna Grace his wolf was severely weakened but his temper wasn't. I often wondered if the love and adoration that Bram offered me was more from his wolf than him sometimes. Perhaps my Gitte and his wolf were the true love match I thought sadly, tripping up over stones in the road as my melancholy took over my concentration.

"You do that a lot," he gruffly interrupted, and I realised he had been watching me.

"What?"

"Disappear into a trance. Thinking of better times?"

"Something like that," I answered haltingly. My stomach clenched at the thought of having t