It had taken him an entire month to finally say her name out loud. He thought that saying her name would make things real, he wanted this all to simply be a dream that he would wake up from and she would be safe and sound in his arms. Saying her name meant that he couldn’t avoid reality any longer, it meant that the flood of tears that he had been holding back this entire time had broken free.
Grae had once been a strong man that no one except his alpha could takedown, now he was a wallowing mess of despair.
“Wake up!” He selfishly demanded of his mate.
He clenched her hand tightly and shouted it again, tears now flowing down his face.
“You’re not f*****g leaving me Winnifryd!” He demanded.
He loved his mate far too much to let her go, he refused to.
Grae removed the oxygen mask d
