Chapter 42
I shattered in solitude. Sebastien had propped the back entrance open to accommodate the wolf I’d descended into in my agony. Then he left via the same doors he’d initially come through without a single backwards glance.
How can our mate abandon us at a time like this? my wolf whimpered. But he wasn’t our mate. The human we’d hoped to spend the rest of our lives getting to know had instead refused to turn us from two beings into one.
Fighting against the sensation of yawning emptiness that had expanded from my belly to encompass my entire body, I struggled to force wobbly legs forward to follow in his wake. But there was no umbilical cord of connection trailing behind my absent partner. No warmth buoying me up and no half-formed tether dragging me down. Sebastien was simply g
