Chapter 23
Lily’s POV.
I fought my way through the crowded living room, the thrum of music vibrating up through my heels. Wherever Sonia was, I needed to find her, but I felt too unmoored to care. My wolf snarled in my chest, furious at me for rejecting my true mate.
“You need to calm the f**k down,” I whispered under my breath as I finally broke through the bodies and into the balcony’s cooler air. The silence is bliss, but my thoughts are anything but quiet.
“You can’t keep pushing him away,” my wolf growls back.
“You mean Joe,” I answer bitterly, my hands gripping the railing. “Mark is my mate.”
I slipped out onto the balcony. The night air hit me coolly, and I pressed my forehead against the railing, trying to steady my racing heart. Stars flickered above the city skyline, but I
