Stars
After a campaign for the pack, I was gravely wounded, and rogues ambushed me on the way home.
Dozens of rogues surrounded me, slashing wound after wound across my body.
Meanwhile, my mate, the captain of the pack guard, had dropped everything to go to her first love, who was about to drink wolfsbane.
In my past life, I sent her a mind-link, begging her to bring the guards and save me.
She abandoned her first love, and I survived because of it.
But by the time Vivian reached Gavin Cross's home, her first love had already drunk the wolfsbane and stopped breathing.
Yet Vivian never blamed me, and we went on living happily together.
Three years later, on my way back from my second campaign, rogues cornered me again.
The one leading them was my own mate.
"You lied to me that day, didn't you? You're an Alpha. There's no way you couldn't beat a band of rogues. But you were so jealous of Gavin that you forced me to your side, and I let him swallow wolfsbane and die in agony."
"Today I want to see for myself whether one Alpha can really beat this many rogues."
I fought for my life, but their claws were coated with wolfsbane, and in the end I died under them.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day the rogues first attacked me.
This time, I decided to step aside and let her go save her first love.