Ivy
“Take care of Sara. Tell her I’m sorry—for being a d**k. For everything. She deserved better.”
Max’s voice still echoes through my mind as Nyx dashes through the trees towards the northern flank of the ridge. The bond is fading—thin, frayed, and slowly slipping through my fingers like smoke.
No.
I refuse to let myself think the worst. Not yet, anyway. Not until I lay eyes on the cocky beta.
Nyx pushes even harder, forcing our limbs to move faster. Her fury is bleeding through and into me, now drowning out everything else.
Sara can't lose her mate, not when they have barely begun to let one another in. Regardless of whether their bond is completed or not, it could still have the same effects on her as losing my dad did to my mom. I can't let that happen.
I can hear the two war
