Slamming the door to my office I talked to my desk and grasped the edge trying to calm my anger, which was proving hard.   "I had to do it." Sapphire argued through my mind, again. She had been apologizing since we'd been thrown from the room by our very angry mate. Our rightfully pissed the F-off mate.   "Don't!" I yelled, digging my fingers into the desk until the wood gave way and crumbled in my hands. "Out of my head, now." I growled at my wolf, for the first time since Sapphire found me in that darkness, I wanted her gone.   "Fine, but I did this for us, Eva. For us all. You, me, Valen, the pack. Our species." She whispered, disappearing from my consciousness immediately after.   My wolf had destroyed the barest bit of trust I had managed to build with Valen. Set us back to the beginning, and I was not ready to forgive her at the moment. Tears of frustration pricked at the corners

   Walking to the practice fields was awkward. I guess I was still a bit of a spectacle. The human in the werewolf world, mated to their fearless leader. I could see it in their eyes as I walked past, they didn’t think I was worthy of being here, much less of a higher rank. Keeping my head held high, I refused to show any weakness.   As we neared a sign that signaled training field C, I looked among the warriors currently sparing, hoping for a glimpse of Eva. I saw her bright blonde hair flash in the sunlight before disappearing behind another body and made a line straight for her. Getting closer I realized the reason I hadn’t really seen her for more then a flash was because she was sparing. But her opponent was more than double her size.   My heart stopped for a moment when he swung a large fist at her head, all I saw was a concussion and the considerable damage that would come from the man’s hammer of a fist ramming into her sku