“I want you to listen! I want you to see and I want you to… let me go!” His grip tightened around her as his heart shattered into a million pieces. He could never let her go. He couldn’t. It would kill him. It would take the last piece of humanity he had left in him. How could he make her understand that he was lost without her? “I am an outcast, Ethan and nothing is changing. It won’t change,” she sobbed curling her fingers into his shirt. “It will,” he said, his voice breaking, “please, Lila, I need you!” “No, Ethan,” she shook her head, “I need you, but you can’t be here, because you are busy preparing for a war that might never happen. I need you to help me settle in and get a foot in the door with your pack. Growling at them whenever they look at me the wrong way is not the way to

