Noah
Everyone expected me to disappear. And it had been tempting. But I had been running away my entire life. I wouldn’t let my parents and my pack down again. I had agreed to take over as their alpha. They had given me a chance at redemption. I wasn’t about to blow it again.
But that didn’t mean I wasn’t hurting. I felt hollow inside. Like someone had carved out my insides with a giant spoon and left me somehow alive.
It was what Fleur must have felt.
Taking a deep breath, my hand closed around the doorknob I paused, and her name tumbled from my lips. “Fleur.”
She would expect me to run away as well. To abandon everyone. I wasn’t going to do that again. Whether our bond was broken or not didn’t matter. She would always own me. I would spend my life in the shadows if need be. Making
