ELLA
I did not sleep that night.
I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling and replaying the conversation over and over in my head until the words stopped making sense.
Caden's face when he told me he loved me. The way his voice cracked. The way he looked at me like I was the only thing in the world that mattered.
And I just walked away.
I turned onto my side and pulled the blanket over my head, but it did not help because I could still see him standing there in the gym with tears in his eyes asking me to stay.
I love you.
Three words. Three simple words that changed everything and nothing at the same time.
Because I wanted to say it back. I wanted to tell him that I felt the same way. Every time I saw him my chest got tight and my hands got sweaty. My wolf howled inside me like she wa
