Leah
After we landed, we took a taxi back to my pack. I pressed my forehead against the cool window, watching the familiar landscape roll past. Trees I’d grown up climbing. Roads I’d driven on a thousand times. Everything looked the same, but I felt like a completely different person.
My chest ached with a deep, hollow pain that made it hard to breathe. Like someone had reached in and carved out something essential. The mate bond hummed quietly in the background, stretched thin across the distance but still there. Still connecting me to Darien even as every mile took me farther away.
I would never see him again. The thought crashed over me in waves, each one threatening to pull me under. He would meet with the other lycan faction. He would consider the proposal. He would choose duty ove
