My eyes burned but I blinked hard, fighting the tears. "He is the Alpha King Kiara." I said. "He needs a Luna who can stand beside him and match him. Asher needs someone strong, someone whole." I pressed my lips together. “ He doesn't need a weak broken omega who flinches at kindness because she has never been able to trust it." I could not control myself any longer. The first tear came without warning. I pressed the back of my hand against my eyes immediately. I was so tired of crying. I had cried enough in those dungeons to last several lifetimes. But they kept coming anyway, those f*****g treacherous eyes. Kiara's arms came around me quietly. She didn't speak or rush to fix anything. She just wrapped her arms around me and the quiet of the room holding us both. I cried u

