Chapter 70
That night, while her body stayed still in the chair, her mind drifted somewhere else. She was inside a memory. But not her own.
She stood in the great hall. Rowan was there, his back turned to her. She looked around at the familiar place and watched as the other wolves took her away.
The night he rejected her. But this time, it wasn’t her watching, It was him. She saw through his eyes, felt what he felt. The weight in his chest. The twist in his gut.
The fury he had used to mask the ache underneath. He hadn’t wanted to reject her. He had done it because he thought he had to. For the pack and for the elders.
She saw the exact second his voice broke when he told her she was no longer his mate. How he had stayed behind the door, just breathing, just trying to keep it toget
