Todos los capítulos de The Darkness Between Us: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 26

BRIELLA.My eyelids felt impossibly heavy when I finally managed to pry them open. For several long moments, I simply lay there, staring at the cream-colored ceiling overhead while my mind struggled to catch up with reality.I blinked, my gaze drifting around the room came into focus. Cream walls. A white dresser polished to a shine. A rocking chair by the window with a half-finished quilt draped over its back like someone had just stepped away mid-stitch.Family photographs lined the shelves, smiling faces a painful reminder that this wasn't home.I winced as everything came flooding back.The amazing night with Ryder. Overhearing what he had said to his friend. His words sliced through me again, reminding me how foolish I'd been to believe he'd choose me. Some might call my decision to leave dramatic, even reckless. Frankly, I didn't give a fuck what anyone thought.I was driving away from the pack when a white-hot agony exploded through my chest. Like someone reached inside me and w

BRIELLA. It didn't take long for me to decide on my path forward. I had already decided to leave the pack before Junie talked to me. If anything, it just helped solidify my choice.'What about Ryder?' Tala asked me.My wolf was torn between wanting her mate and realizing the danger that Alpha Parker posed. Junie hadn't said it outright, but our gut knew that we were right about him.'You heard what I did,' I told her.My wolf sighed and shook her head. 'Yes, I did. Maybe there was more to it than what we heard. We didn't exactly give him a chance to explain or anything.'I thought about it for a moment and had to concede that she was right.'We have to get somewhere safe first. Then we can reach out to him. But we have to be careful.'Junie was outside, watering the plants when I went in search of her. The look in her eyes when she saw me made me think that she already knew my answer."You're leaving," she said. It wasn't a question."I have to." My voice came out steadier than I felt

CASSIE.I held my palm flat on the door and waited for the heavy steps on the porch to become distant. I needed that extra second of silence just to be sure he’d actually taken the hint and walked away.I’d never seen Ryder look like that before. Not in all the years I’d known him.He didn’t do disheveled. He didn’t get rattled. The guy could roll out of bed after a bar fight and still look like he’d stepped out of a magazine spread for future Alphas. It had been instilled in him before he could really shift, thanks to Alpha Parker and his special form of anal-repressive parenting. I still remembered Ryder getting shredded as an eight-year-old pup for having grass stains on his knees at a pack gathering. Grass stains. From playing like a pup. I knew where his unyielding composure had come from, and I knew how deeply it had been imprinted. Which was why the guy on my porch a minute ago had set off every alarm bell in my head.Which was why the guy on my porch a minute ago had set off e