Rejected by her Alpha Mate Colin
And Elinor could already feel the pain even though he had not said a single word to hurt her.
Because he does not have to speak at all to hurt her. His silence was enough and is far more painful than words used to intentionally hurt one.
But then, Colin's lips moved. In a straight face, and in a dead voice he said to her the words that her heart and mind dreads to hear, "I, Colin of the Bloody Immortals Pack, reject you, Elinor Wildes, as my mate."
"Why are you doing this, Colin?" she asked, not a single clue she can find. But looking at his cold eyes, she finds the answer.