I strode through the hallways of the packhouse with a heaviness inside my chest. A guilt. Evelyn did not deserve the way that I had acted toward her this morning. I know she did not. But upon waking, and my mind filling with memories of everything that had occurred, I simply did not know how to be toward her. My mate had seen the monster that lay beneath my skin. The monster that the full moon tore from me. I no longer knew what she thought of me.
‘She was still there, was she not?’ Atlas demanded. ‘She did not ask to return home.’
His words brought me some sort of reassurance, yet a part of me still held a sense of dread. I know the mania that took over was like nothing that Evelyn would ever have seen. It had to have terrified her. I had to have terrified her. I did not want my own m
