I Was Not a Nobody
Behind them clustered a group of preening sycophants, gathered like flies at the arrival gate.
One of them spotted me and smirked. "Well, well, August... Isn't that your shadow? What was her name again? Sophia something?"
August's eyes widened, startled—but the mask slipped back into place quickly. His mouth curled into a slow, mocking smile. "Told you. She'd come crawling back eventually."
The group tittered. "Sophia Miller vanished without a word back then. Now that August is a Beta of the Aurelis Pack, she must've realized she made the wrong call. She probably cried into her pillow every night."