Aurora's POV
Tears blur everything in front of me, the whole room swimming into smears of white and gray.
"No!" I scream it again, like saying it twice might undo what I just heard.
The pain that follows is enormous, cutting straight through everything else tonight has already put me through. I never once considered this.
I spent years certain I'd go through my life without a fated mate at all. I made my peace with that a long time ago. These years, I also was certain that part of me had simply been used up already, spent on a marriage that broke apart and left nothing behind for anyone else to claim. I built an entire life around the idea that this particular door had already closed, and closed for good.
And now this. Him.
Why him. Why does it have to be him, of all the wolves in
