Nathan’s POV
The moment her arms wrapped around me and she broke.
Crying,not like someone who wanted comfort, but like someone who’d carried too much for too long. It shattered something in me.
I’d seen pain, I’d caused pain. But her pain… it felt different, it didn’t just sit on her skin , It had seeped into her bones.
And I had watched it happen.
When she told me she didn’t have a wolf, something in me snapped into place.
All this time I thought she was ignoring the bond between us. That maybe she felt it and chose to push it down. That she didn’t want it. That she just wanted to be free, untouched, unclaimed, unchained.
But now? It all made sense.
She couldn’t feel it because it wasn’t there.
Not yet, her wolf… wasn’t awake and that wasn’t her fault.
“She’s been alone,” my wo
