[Steven]
When I was released from the care of the spirit healers this morning, they told me I had twenty-four hours to leave the state or the wolf queen would sic her hounds on me. There was no sympathy for my loss of magic, no care about the theft of my soulmate. They kept trying to make me say Clover was never my soulmate. I couldn’t leave until I told them that.
It took a lot of practice to say it and pretend I actually meant it. Clover was mine. When Gareth took my magic from me, he took my only means of killing that bear and taking her back. I agree, casting Sunburst was not my best idea, but I was losing my soulmate to that fuсking beast.
I still couldn’t believe how stupid I’d been. I’d believed in Clover. I’d trusted her to see the truth. I loved her. We were a team. Then she b
