Katie
I sat at the dining table while staring blankly at the plate in front of me. The whole house was so quiet. The atmosphere felt heavy because of my restless thoughts. Frank still wasn’t home. And seeing the empty chair across from me only deepened the ache in my chest.
I traced the idle patterns along the rim of the plate with my fingers as I sighed deeply.
How long was I supposed to wait like this?
How much longer could I endure being treated like a distant obligation rather than the mate I was meant to be?
"Then why not go to him?" Alaine’s voice, my wolf, cut through the silence in my mind. She had been quiet for much of the day. But now she sounded impatient.
I frowned. Her suggestion stirred curiosity in me. "Go to him? What are you talking about?"
"You’ve been sitting h
