“Why now?” Desina’s voice trembled with a mixture of anger and hurt as she confronted Alpha Colyn, her eyes blazing with defiance. “After all you’ve done to me, after all the pain you’ve caused, why come for me now?”
Alpha Colyn’s expression softened, his gaze filled with a mixture of regret and longing as he reached out to her. “Desina, I know that I have made mistakes,” he admitted, his voice tinged with sorrow. “But I have come to realize that I cannot bear to be without you. You are a part of our pack, a part of me.”
Desina recoiled at his words, her heart aching with the weight of his confession. She had spent so long trying to distance herself from the pain of her past, to forge a new path for herself away from the wolves who had hurt her. But now, faced with Alpha Colyn’s unexpect
