Nathan POV
Claire was gone.
I hadn’t been able to stop her. Not from leaving our home months ago, and now not from leaving the pack altogether.
And it was only now I realized just how desperately I’d wanted her to come home.
Home to our son, who missed her on a daily basis. Home to the house she’d run so well, and which now felt like it was falling apart.
Home to me.
My mate was gone, joining the Royal pack.
And there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.
So I threw myself into work.
The Alpha duties I’d been neglecting suddenly seemed endless, and the election for Alpha President loomed large in the very near future. I felt like I’d been ignoring everything, doing the bare minimum instead of focusing on my duties before anything else.
Being an Alpha meant always doing y
