Elara
Ace didn't say a word before he left. He just had a stiff jaw. A tight knot between his brows that wasn’t there when I curled up beside him. He was warm when he held me, steady when he touched me but right after the knock on the door, something inside him changed. I saw it. I felt it like the weight of the past came crashing down and cracking through his chest.
He didn’t even look at me when he walked out.
He just threw on a shirt and said, “Don’t wait for me.” He even shoved me aside and then, he was gone.
At first, I tried not to overthink it. Goddess, I really did. I told myself he probably had Alpha things to handle. Maybe someone in the pack needed him. Maybe a rogue got too close again. But the way his eyes didn’t meet mine, that look, that haunted, lost look, I couldn’t st
