“Tired, yes. But not from the day... from me.”
He didn’t argue.
“I keep thinking I’m doing something wrong,” I said quietly. “That maybe she’s pulling away because somewhere deep down, she blames me for it.”
Cole tilted his head slightly. “For losing her wolf?”
I nodded once.
He was silent for a moment, then he sighed. “Alex, if she’s detached, it’s not because she blames you. She’s lost touch with her wolf. That’s not something any of us can even imagine. I mean, the bond between a wolf and its human side... it’s everything. You lose that, you lose a part of yourself. It’s no wonder she’s different. Maybe that’s how she’s coping.”
“By shutting down?” I asked.
“Maybe.”
I sighed. “It must be affecting our bond somehow,” I said. “I can feel it. There’s a... distance between us that w
