Sage I only wanted one thing tonight—to torment her. To make her feel the weight of rejecting me, the Alpha. People beg for my attention; they don’t throw it away like trash. And yet she did. So I planned to give her a night she would never forget. That was the whole point of sending her to that incomplete, abandoned building. I didn’t intend to show up at all. I wanted her uncomfortable. Worried. Crying. Regretting. But somehow… my feet still carried me there. I told myself it was curiosity. Control. The desire to see the consequences of her stupidity with my own eyes. But the truth was quieter and irritating—something in me felt off the moment she texted that she was already on her way. Something in me couldn’t stay home. So here I was, hidden between cracked concrete and shadows, my

