---POV Conri---
Staring in the mirror, I couldn’t unsee my mate running towards us when we found her in Prince Chaz’s castle. She looked so…broken, but so happy to see us all at the same time. Then she shut us out shortly after because she thought she would have to do this alone. She thought she was going to become a monster after spending three long weeks with one because I couldn’t save her! I just had to go by the rules. The damn rules. I grit my teeth and balled my fist on the onyx countertop while my hair fell on either side of my shoulders.
“You have to fix this, Conri. She doesn’t need us anymore and she defied us earlier! This is not our Ayame. Chaz broke her! I want my Ayame back!” My Lycan growled the same thing I'd heard from him since shortly after we got her back. Initially
