Maximus’s POV
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A lot had changed in just two weeks.
The woman who once sparked something fierce inside my heart no longer felt like her. The pull that used to crash into my soul had faded into silence.
Every time I looked at Celeste, the quiet inside me grew heavier. Before, my wolf reacted violently whenever she came near. My blood burned and my instincts screamed.
But now, nothing.
That day she walked into my office, I had sensed someone different. And now she smelled and felt like the woman I had worked beside for a year, not the one I marked.
It was like one body carried two souls, and the real one was gone.
Now when I looked at her, my wolf stayed asleep.
I stood by the window in my study, lost in thoughts I could not fix. I was waiting for Peter to return with information I
