It hurts to hear him say it, feel it. The regret of what happened with us, even while I’m trying to ignore it. The tears bite at my eyes, and a lump forms in my throat, that almost chokes me, inflicting a unique body and brain ache that’s hard to shake off.
“Maybe you should have, but you would never have forgiven yourself. You made the choices you made for the good of the pack, even if it hurt us. If you left them, he would never have relinquished control, and they would suffer still. The Fates had a plan, and maybe leaving with me would have changed my path and never led me to her. And what about her? You’ve waited for her for ten years; she needs you. They all do. I finally see how all of this is so much bigger than us, Colton. Why it had to be that we couldn’t be together. It was by
