But now, the time had come. Plus, it seemed like a good, appropriate way to start my first day as a free woman.
I called upon my wolf, feeling her approach the surface, and searched my soul for the spiritual thread that tied me to Lucian: I felt him answer on the other side as soon as I tugged on it. He couldn’t speak to me — we’d never gained that complete, open mind-link with one another — but he could definitely feel me touching it.
I focused on that thread: and the more I stared at it, the more my intention to snap it burned.
I took a deep breath, allowing myself a moment to completely feel the weight of the occasion. To ground myself in it.
And then I did it.
“I, Katherine Lancaster, reject you, Lucian Farrow, as my Alpha and Mate,” I declared. Not once did my voice waver. Not on
