KILLIAN
The awkward silence was killing me. Calum was staring at us while Claire and I stared at each other. I couldn’t stop myself earlier and embraced her. I felt it. There was a sense of relief in Claire when I embraced her, and I felt the same, but it felt like hell when she pushed me away.
I could hear my wolf reaching out for Claire’s, but I couldn’t hear any response. For the first months after we severed the bond, it felt like there was a huge void in my soul that I could never fill, no matter what I did.
It still feels like that now, and I have just learned to live with that feeling of emptiness all throughout the years, but being this close to her and feeling that gap just hits differently. It wasn’t even physical pain that hurt me.
I feel so numb that it hurts. If that even
