His sorrow-laden scent was heavy in the air as I walked away, but I forced myself to keep going. I was done accepting less than I deserved, even if every single step I took away from him was killing me just a little bit more inside.
FORTY-ONE
Gael
A
s night fell on the following day, the time for the tribunal had arrived. But instead of being laser focused as I should have been as the pack’s second and Kane’s head enforcer, I was giving the preparations half my attention at best. I couldn’t stop playing over the shitstorm that had happened the day before, Leigh’s stiff posture as she’d walked away, leaving me behind. My wolf hadn’t liked it, not one bit.
But I let her go.
I still wasn’t sure whether that was the right move, and the last twenty-four hours had been torture for me and m
