Hazel's POVThe next morning, I woke up to an empty bed.For a second, I thought maybe last night had been a dream. Maybe if I reached out, Blaine would still be there, lying beside me and breathing evenly in his sleep.But the sheets were cold. He was really gone.I stared at the empty space in front of me. Had he gone to her again?When I had left the hospital, Eloise had been coughing blood. Blaine must have gone back to her this morning.Of course he had. That was how it had always been.Eloise, the orphan girl people pitied, loved and protected. The girl my parents had taken in and raised as their own. She had gone from having nothing to living as a daughter of an Alpha. People adored her because she was cute. They treated her like a little sister, cherished her in ways I had never quite understood.At first, Blaine had been the same as the rest: kind, protective and treating her like any younger sibling. But then, slowly, things changed. The more time they spent together, the le
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