ASHINA’S POVMy fingers fumbled against the edge of the rough bandage, pulling it tighter over my thigh. The sting bit deep, but I welcomed it. Pain, at least, offered a strange sort of clarity, like a brutal, unflinching truth that didn’t lie or shift like the emotions churning relentlessly within my chest, where confusion and heartache tangled into an insufferable storm I could no longer contain.I refused to look at him, and not even when his shadow fell over me, or not even when his scent—earth, smoke, and steel—wrapped around my senses like a cruel reminder of everything I wanted but could never have."Zelda," Alpha Boris said lowly, his voice laced with confusion. "What’s going on with you? Why are you acting like this?"Acting? Yeah! We women when we were mad, they would call it acting…I pulled the bandage tight and tied the knot with trembling fingers. Still no answer. I wouldn’t give him one. I wouldn’t let him see how much he had shaken me.I rose stiffly to my feet, ignor
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