[Kat's P.O.V]
Elias follows me as I make my way to the pack house. The slight crunch of dead leaves and twigs is the only sound we make before he reaches out to stop me, his fingers only grazing my shoulder before falling limp at his side.
"Reject me?" He seethes, baring his canines at me. "Go ahead. You're just like everyone else; they always leave me."
"Leave you? You push people away, Elias. I have tried to love you, but you deny me time and time again. I can't go on like this. I can't keep clinging onto someone who doesn't want me," I say. I longed just to be loved, to be held by him. Tears began pouring from my eyes as I stared at Elias.
He doesn't say anything as he turns away from me. Anger courses through my body, and I shove myself at him. "Don't walk away from me," I plead, d
