The closeness with Alessandro only served to shake me, to shake me up, even to weaken and disarm me. I wanted to be stronger and more decisive with him, to let him know that there was no longer any possibility of there being anything 'ours,' that he had already made everything very clear and that his betrayal, because I couldn't find another expression to describe what he had done to me, had been more than enough to bury it all and let it remain in the past. But despite those words coming from my lips, my spirit and my feelings clamored for something completely different.
When he told me that it was impossible for him to leave my memory in the past, and that if I didn't understand it was because I didn't count on Belona, I shuddered, because even without my she-wolf, I also didn't feel ca
