Chapter Seventy Eight

(Nate’s POV)

Everything felt empty without her.

Every single day, I had to fight the urge to go right back to the Raven Pack and take her back with me. I couldn’t imagine this was the end. Many times, I wondered if I actually made the right choice, if I should have remained with the guilt and kept her, but again, I knew she deserved better. I remembered her mother’s words. I hadn’t only put Aurora through hell; her mother too had suffered that, all because of me.

I couldn’t let that happen again.

My room seemed so empty; a place I once saw as home was just not that anymore; it seemed foreign, yet nothing had changed, but the one single fact that she was not here with me, I guess, changed everything. I had to face my job and duties as the Gamma in hopes that it would keep me distracted, and it does for the most part, but one thought about her was enough to shatter my concentration.

“You did the right thing,” Diego told me. He had always been like a brother to me, but he had given me a