Malcolm
I took the envelope and carried it down to Mum's chamber.
"Mum, this was addressed to you," I said and handed her the envelope.
Her eyes immediately welled up with tears. " She left us, she's gone, Son. Why did she leave?"
I crouched my shoulders and pushed my hands into the pockets of my jeans and my heart fell in defeat. She didn't just leave Arden, she left the family, she left the pack. She left me. I shut my eyes, leaning against the door and inhaling deeply. She left me. I have been f*****g helpless, to do anything about the bond between us. I wanted to make her mine, I wanted to claim and mark her. I wanted her to be my everything but she already belonged to my brother, the Alpha.
I knew the second I met her sitting at the Alpha family table that she was the
