Jared's POV
I gazed out of the window in my office trying to hold back the ache in my chest. Ever since that night when Raymus and his men took Alivia from me, well since I gave her to them. It wasn't because that I wanted to keep the pack safe more than her, it was because they would have hurt her in front of me and I couldn't have taken that. I never left the office and when I did, it was to let my wolf out because he was hurting as much as I was.
But when she had first called me, I had freaked out and said the first thing that came to my head. I told her that I didn't want her and that I wanted to go back to the Playboy that I was when I first met her. My wolf hadn't talked after that because all he wanted was his Mate.
What I hadn't expected Alivia to do was call me again and not ta
