He shook his head and I felt the tears well up in my eyes. “No you’re right; I was the one who hurt you,” there was an edge to his voice. “I was just so upset that after everything we’ve gone through, that you’d throw it away.” I held back a whimper as my wolf pushed me to go and comfort our mate. “That you’d willingly give yourself up to those bastards, knowing that it would kill me because I wouldn’t have you.” The distress in his voice was the final straw and I crawled over and sat on his lap.
Taking his face in between my hands I kept my gaze on him. “I thought that I what I was doing was what was best for the pack.” Lowering my head to his I placed a whisper soft kiss onto his lips. “But now I realize that me leaving wouldn’t have been what was best,” Jared closed his eyes and a tear
