Aspen.
"Don't touch me, Alpha. Staying away from you is getting harder," I confessed, my voice trembling with the weight of my admission.
Aiden fell silent, his expression a mix of concern and confusion. Since the bond between us had repaired itself, every moment he spent with his wife felt like a dagger to my heart.
It wasn’t a crime for him to be with her, but the fact that we could not reject each other made it all the more painful.
"You have it all, Alpha. I have nothing. No one," I continued, my voice barely above a whisper.
The truth of my words hung heavily in the air.
All I had was my wolf. No family, no true friends. I was surrounded by friendly faces and worked with kind people, yet the loneliness gnawed at me relentlessly.
"My life is a joke. You are supposed to be my mat
