~RAGNAR~
The walk back to the meeting room felt longer than before. Each step was a battle between sense and desire, between what I needed to do and what I wanted to do. The bond pulled at me, trying to drag me back to her.
Marcus and the others looked up as I re-entered the room, their expressions carefully neutral. They were good men – they wouldn't question why their Alpha had rushed out in the middle of a meeting. But I could smell their curiosity.
Especially Marcus, ambitious as the man was by pushing his daughter on to me repeatedly, he was also a man who never went past his boundaries.
He dreamt big, wished for Polina to become Luna but I had made it clear from my actions that it would never be.
Especially now.
I cannot imagine myself with another woman, the sheer thought o
