CHAPTER 5 LUCAI slammed my b****y, bare fists into the heavy bag until the scabs on my knuckles split open. The hanging black bag swung back and forth under the dim Dynamo Gym light, the grainy sand shifting around inside. What was wrong with me? What had I done to not only make my mate reject me, but Mae too? When those two she-wolves had approached me at the Eclipse Bar, I should’ve said no and pushed them away. I shouldn’t have left with them, just to make myself feel f*****g better. Because now, two nights later, I hadn’t had the courage to make it back home and face Mae. I should’ve stayed with her, the one damn woman who actually made me smile after that pathetic rejection. Sweat rolled down my abdomen—or maybe that was blood from my knuckles. I couldn’t tell anymore, and I didn’

