GHIAN HAD BEEN GONE when he’d woken up, the sun filtering in through a slight c***k on the doorway. For a moment, Aalyan hadn’t even known what was off, and then it’d come back to him and he’d buried his face in the bedding, gulping hard to hold back tears. He just...
His alpha was likely keeping track of him through their bond because it wasn’t until he managed to calm himself that the door opened and he came in. “I have some fruit for you.”
Aalyan was closer to vomiting than hunger but he thanked him and got up, sitting on the ground outside and putting the juicy mangoes in his mouth, swallowing mechanically until he was only left with the core. He stared at it. Sticky and misshapen.
“Aalyan?” He glanced up. He couldn’t have said how long it was, but the food or the sun settled him a
