Nymera’s POV I kept telling myself that things would get easier once we got farther away from the pack. I also kept telling myself that every painful step was carrying me farther from the humiliation, farther from the whispers, farther from the sight of Kaelith standing beside Astra while my entire world fell apart. But I was wrong. The farther we traveled, the worse everything seemed to become. The mate bond might have been broken from his side, but my heart refused to let go of him. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw his face. Every time I tried to sleep, I heard his voice. Every time I touched my stomach, I remembered the night we had spent together and the future we had planned. A future that no longer existed because he had destroyed it with his own hands. Yet somehow, despite ev

