The Rejected Lycan Heiress: He rejected her, she claimed his
We collapsed into each other, sinking to the floor in a heap of tangled limbs and damp fabric.
The dam finally broke, and I felt the hot, stinging tears spill over my cheeks, soaking into Tera's shoulder. She was shaking violently, her sobs echoing mine as we held onto each other as if we were the only two people left in a crumbling world. The terror of the past few days, the isolation, and the crushing weight of my failure all came pouring out in a torrent of raw emotion.
"I'm so sorry, Adella," Tera cried, her voice muffled by my hair. "I should have been faster, I should have protected you. I thought I had lost you when those things came out of the trees. I thought I was all alone."