KAEL
Every step along the stone hallway sucked me down as though I were quicksand. Pain throbbed in my chest, and no matter how hard I tried to shake it, it was still there.
I should have turned her down the moment I f*****g met her!
Her whole being haunted me. I could still feel the tremble on her lips when she accepted my rejection. I wanted to turn back, fall at her feet, and beg for forgiveness. The regret slammed so hard, I wanted to collapse my knees and bury my face in the ground.
To hell with the Moon Goddess!
I realised this was no easy thing… rejecting a mate, and I now knew why. Every breath was like swallowing glass.
“She’s better off without me,” I muttered to myself, clearly giving a pathetic excuse to make sense of what I’d done. But Fenrir kept on growling at me
