KAEL
If it’s tearing me up this bad, an Alpha with a powerful wolf to anchor me, how much worse must it be for her? I thought rejecting her would kill the bond, but it’s like hacking at a rope that just won’t break.
I lay on the healer’s table. Sweat covered my body while I shook uncontrollably. I felt a wave of pain as though there was liquid fire trying to burn me from the inside out. My muscles contracted to the point where I was fairly certain they were in danger of ripping, and each joint in my body hurt as if it had been forcibly dislocated.
I gripped my chest, willing the searing ache in my heart to end, but it kept hammering. I groaned, trying to stifle the cry.
One week had passed since Maya left.
But the agony worsened with each passing day, which kept reminding me that th
