Nevara
“I did look for you,” he said, quieter now. “I sent scouts. I needed to know you were okay. I needed to know where you were.”
I stared at him, mouth parting. “You knew what pack I came from. It wouldn’t have been that hard. I went back, Thoren. Of course I did. It was the only place I had left.”
“I know,” he murmured. “That’s how we found you.”
I blinked again. “Then… why didn’t you come?”
He dragged a hand down his jaw. “Because when my scouts returned, they said you were married. That you’d been claimed by your Alpha. That you were Luna now. And I… I wasn’t about to storm into your life and take that away. I thought… I thought you were happy. That you’d moved on.”
My breath caught, fury and disbelief twisting tight in my chest.
“So instead,” I said, voice brittle, “you let
