Amara POV
I have made my decision. I was returning to Shadow Pack, not for Caspian, and most definitely not because I forgave him. I would return because I could not run away from it all again, without any kind of strategy for when all those who tied me down would come to find me. It would only give them more power over me. I faced Ronan in that silent room, his gray eyes boring through me, and I knew he did not understand.
"You can stay," he said.
"I can't." I shook my head. "You don't have to return tonight."
"I know."
"Then why?"
I looked down at my hands. I had no real reason. Not for this moment, at least. I had done something that, for once in my life, had not followed the rules of someone else's design. I had walked away. I had done the unthinkable and talked to a different A
