MendozaThe moon was nearly full when Benjamin found me on the northern ridge.I’d been running patrols alone..again...trying to outpace the hollow ache that had taken up permanent residence behind my ribs. My wolf was quieter every day, like a flame starved of oxygen. He still paced when Olivia’s scent drifted on the wind, but the fire behind it was dimming. Fading. As if the bond itself was beginning to understand it had no future.Benjamin didn’t announce himself. He simply stepped out of the tree line, boots silent on pine needles, arms folded across his chest. Shirt sleeves rolled to his elbows, jaw set, eyes the color of storm clouds about to break.I shifted back mid-stride, fur receding, bones snapping into human shape. The cold bit at bare skin. I didn’t bother covering up.“Alpha,” I said, voice flat.He didn’t waste time on pleasantries.“Break it.”Two words with no explanation needed.I felt the words land like a blade between my ribs.“The bond,” he clarified, stepping
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